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Editor's note : From now on each weekly blog page will have several items culled from the past called  "9/11 - From The History File" : It's for those who didn't know, and also for those who forgot....or are trying to forget.

Editor's note - War Update, War Alert, War Warning, Red War Warning and War Imminent - refer to articles regarding the upcoming war with Iran.  In the order they appear as shown above, they  represent less serious to more serious possible threats of war. - mpg

As of 08-08-08 a new category of war warning will be included, the above warnings will have the prefix (WWIII) added to them to indicate the possible outbreak of greater hostilities. - mpg
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Tuesday May 24th 2011- links page

More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™....

The Last Word on Osama Bin Laden – James Corbett  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/24/the-last-word-on-osama-bin-laden-james-corbett/
Must View CRVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OATF_BXEx8M  ---  (CRYuTb - 14min 13sec - May 24, 2011) - Source:  corbettreport  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/corbettreport  ---  A quote...."(CorbettReport) – …But after finally waking from the 10 year nightmare of the Osama Bin Laden fable, are the public willing to go straight back to sleep? Or are they going to start questioning the official narratives that are cemented into place in the wake of every large-scale event, narratives that always support more government intrusion in our lives, expanded wars of aggression around the globe and an ever-expanding police state?… " - || Transcript & Sources  ||  ---  http://www.corbettreport.com/the-last-word-on-osama-bin-laden/
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

Careful What You Wish For! A Warning to Politicians, Police and the Military: You’re Building a Prison For Us all
  ---  http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=20680 
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."These days it seems difficult to comprehend for many ordinary people why the world seems steeped in chaos, both financial and militaristic. -- It feels as if the world is turning on its head as people’s finances pour down the drain of bailouts to private banks at the behest of corrupt governments across the world and armies invade countries in far off lands for increasing dubious reasons which have nothing to do with terrorism or any other ‘ism’ label those in positions of power wish to abuse in the name of a ‘holy crusade’ or ‘just war’. And forget ‘democracy’, if we ever had anything remotely resembling ‘democracy’ it disappeared down the memory hole along with the assumption that we had free speech and a free society. -- We’ve not been ‘free’ in any true sense of the word for many a year and it’s only getting worse as tyranny is being imposed through the same corrupt governments, in cahoots with the same criminal banking Mafioso, robbing us of any wealth we may have left in our depleted bank accounts." - also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Careful
_What_You_Wish_For%21_A_Warning_to_Politicians%2C_Police_and_the_Military%3A_You%E2%80%99re_Building_a_Prison_For_Us_all_/14018/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
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Protecting Us from Our Freedoms - Congress Set to Renew Patriot Act Spy Provisions  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24926 
A quote...."As night follows day, you can count on Congress to serve as loyal servants and willing accomplices of our out-of-control National Security State. -- Last week, in another shameless demonstration of congressional "bipartisanship," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) forged a filthy backroom deal that reauthorizes insidious surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act for an additional four years." - also posted at PrisonPlanet  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/protecting-us-from-our-freedoms.html 
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Patriot Act Extension Scheme Sells Out the Constitution  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/117239 
A quote...."US House and Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan backroom deal to push for approval of a four-year extension of the the most controversial components of the USA Patriot Act, in a move that rejects calls for responsible reform of the law by civil libertarians on the right and the left." 
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We are Not Terrorist or Criminals.We Just Want to be Left Alone.Why Is it So Hard For Washington DC to Understand?
  ---  http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2011/05/we-are-not-terrorist-or-criminalswe.html 
A quote...."It seems the Globalist want to start a fight or declare war on the people. These people are not in their rights minds. Despotism is a mental illness in my book because they can not seem to mind their own business.They are power freaks and control addicts. Not fit to be elected or appointed as dog catchers.They think they are royalty and know better than the peasants. We are subjects to them and not sovereigns. A sovereign scares them to death because it destroys the illusion of we need them for everything. When a person is left alone not being constrained by ridicul[ous] laws and regulations. He is capable of solving his own problems with no help from the government.What really frightens bureaucrats and big government politicians is we can do better if we are left alone." 
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Report Documents Fake Terror Threats Concocted by FBI and NYPD
  ---  http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/05/manufactured_threats_of_homegrown_terrorism.html 
False Flags Exposed - A quote...."Shahawar Matin Siraj immigrated to Queens, N.Y., from Pakistan with his family when he was 16. Siraj began working at his uncle’s Islamic bookshop in Queens where, soon after 9/11, an undercover police officer began coming around and engaging Siraj in conversations about politics and religion. Whatever Siraj said to the officer in those conversations, it was enough for NYPD to soon assign another undercover officer to befriend the young man as well." - Topix ||  The F.B.I.'s Constant Gardening  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/thefbisconstantgardening-mpg-weblist-121310.html 
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Cyber-War Is Evolving Fast  ---  http://revolutionarypolitics.com/?p=5675 
A quote...."A new war is being waged – a war that is not fought with guns, missiles, or human soldiers, but with code in cyberspace, using computers and the Internet. It’s a war on all fronts – by governments against governments, governments against corporations, organized crime and insiders against both, and even individuals against other individuals (which is more often dubbed cybercrime, but that’s not a necessary distinction for our purposes)." 
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White House Adds New Position to Deal with Unfavorable Online Media
  ---  http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/white-house-dedicates-new-position-to-deal-with-unfavorable-online-media_b36292 
Related Article - Obama has created another ministry of "truth" - mpg -- A quote...."The White House has named Jesse Lee to a new position within its communications department titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response. According to The Huffington Post, Lee will essentially be responsible for building up Obama’s online presence as he prepares for his reelection bid, and squashing any negative stories...." - also posted at ActivistPost
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/white-house-adds-new-position-to-deal.html 
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White House Hires ‘Terminator’ To ‘Squash Negative Stories’ About Obama
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/white-house-hires-terminator-to-squash-negative-stories-about-obama.html 
Related Article - You ObamaTrolls out there happy yet? - mpg -- A quote...."In a bid to ‘squash negative stories’ about Barack Obama that appear on the Internet, the White House has hired a dedicated propagandist whose role will be to savage people who tell “lies” about the President, in a chilling reminder of how prosecutors threatened people with jail time during the 2008 campaign if they criticized Obama." 
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The Resistance in Obama Time -- Over 2,600 Activists Arrested in the US Since Election  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/quigley05242011.html 
You ObamaTrolls out there happy yet. - mpg -- A quote...."Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US.   Research shows over 670 people have been arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were arrested in 2010, and 665 arrested in 2009.   These figures certainly underestimate the number actually arrested as arrests in US protests are rarely covered by the mainstream media outlets which focus so intently on arrests of protestors in other countries." 
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203. Lower Your Profile; Enhance Your Privacy  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/05/24/203-lower-your-profile-enhance-your-privacy/
Audio Freedom Tips - A quote...."Being stopped by a cop or having a subpoena thrust in your face can ruin at least your day if not your life. Bill Rounds, a strong advocate of personal and financial freedom and civil liberties, suggests a few reasonable ways to prepare for these and other events, using both common sense and new technologies." 
  • Bill Rounds: Archives  ---  http://www.lewrockwell.com/rounds/rounds-arch.html 
  • Bill Rounds new book How to Vanish  ---  http://www.howtovanish.com/products/how-to-vanish-book/ 
  • Bill Rounds website: How to Vanish  ---  http://www.howtovanish.com/ 
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Arguments Regarding the Collapse of the World Trade Center Evaporate Upon Inspection
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/arguments-regarding-collapse-of-world.html 
Special Note - A quote...."The government agency in charge of the investigation of why three buildings collapsed on 9/11 - the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - says that paint tests indicated low steel temperatures -- 480 Fahrenheit -- "despite pre-collapse exposure to fire".  ---  http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwtc.nist.gov%2Fmedia%2FP3MechanicalandMetAnalysisofSteel.pdf&ei=KxFPR57FBIeSpwTKpcHZDg&usg=AFQjCNGSX2MOWar6o8EyHTjuMtoe2JH4cA&sig2=OPjAoN640TNQBYE7bpMV0g  ---  NIST also said that microstructure tests showed "no steel reached critical (half-strength) values of 600 Celsius (1112 degrees Fahrenheit) for any significant time.  ---  http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwtc.nist.gov%2Fpubs%2FNISTNCSTAR1-3Draft.pdf&ei=0xFPR-zOCJaspwSO8vDVDg&usg=AFQjCNE2rzBjiAH-rs8sgsVI9Lsheo7Z4A&sig2=lR0aF9LD4sKlTbVDA6b95A  ---  Numerous top fire protection engineers have said that the fires in the World Trade Centers were not that hot....." 
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24933 
& ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/arguments-regarding-collapse-world-trade-center-evaporate-upon-inspection 
Topix ||  9/11-WTC7  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-wtc7-weblist-mpg-082308 
||  9/11-WTC-1&2  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911WTC1&2-weblist-mpg-030709 
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Manny Badillo Interviewed By Bob Tuskin On False Flag Terror And Building What Campaign (Video)
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/manny-badillo-interviewed-by-bob-tuskin.html 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWbwcU-6V6w  ---  (YuTb - 15min 02sec - May 24, 2011) - Source:  NotForSale2NWO  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/NotForSale2NWO  ---  A quote...."Bob Tuskin of BobTuskin.com  ---  http://www.bobtuskin.com/  ---  Interviews Manny Badillo at the Atlanta 9/11 Truth Conference." - Topix ||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html 
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Rense & Celente - People Don't Want To Know  ---  http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15087 
Must View GRVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR_BMAbYQkY  ---  (GRYuTb - 15min08sec - May 23, 2011) - Source:  JRense  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/JRense  ---  A quote...."Gerald Celente - Trends forecaster - says Americans are now burying their heads in the sand - They don't want to know. And Obama is lacking praise (to say the least!)" - Regarding Gerald Celente's views on "liberals" see....AViDD "believer" Type-1 and Type-2 Syndromes - 11-04-08 - mpg  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/aviddbelievertype1andtype2syndrome-mpg-reficultnias-110408 
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Global Financial Crisis  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28183.htm 
Must View MKVideo - MK&PCR(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEPob3kQ-6g  ---  MK&PCR(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX7M3w02Bfw  ---  (MK&PRSTVYuTb - May 21, 2011) - Source:  PressTVGlobalNews  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/PressTVGlobalNews  ---  A quote...."Max Keiser interviews Dr, Paul Craig Roberts from Georgia who is an American economist, columnist for Creators Syndicate, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Reagan Administration and an editor of the Wall Street Journal." 
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Adam Vs. the Man – Irrelevance of Robert Gates, Pakistan, Israel and “Defense” Spending
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/24/adam-vs-the-man-irrelevance-of-robert-gates-pakistan-israel-and-defense-spending/ 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUoB5RIe-A  ---  (RTYuTb - 29min 57sec - May 24, 2011) - Source:  AdamVsTheManRT  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/AdamVsTheManRT  ---  A quote...."(RussiaToday) – Tonight on Adam vs. the Man with Adam Kokesh: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made his last speech as such today, and AVTM military analyst Jake Diliberto was all over it like white on rice, as we would say in the Marines. You’ll get all the military fetishism you could possibly want out of him today! Adam and Jake also cover recent events in Pakistan, a government that seems to be at war with its own people. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a speech today before a joint session of Congress, and was followed by a representative of Palestine, oh wait, no. Palestine doesn’t have a lobby that owns half of Congress! David Swanson of warisacrime.org joins Adam for his take and Mattie Corrao of Americans for Tax Reform is in studio to give the scoop on how the “defense” authorization bill is being abused by Congress. Adam has updates on the Metro Transit Police phone flood, and the NEXT end of the world. You’ll want to mark your calendars as soon." 
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The American Dream By The Provocateur Network - New Release - Updated  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWH5TlbloU 
PNVideo - Alt2  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6OQzH07u0U  ---  Alt3  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGk5ioEXlIM  ---  (PNYuTb - 30min - Jan1st-6th, 2011) - As Alex Jones says,  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmxSqjSTbCs  ---  it's a good video -- Animated short on how the Fed makes everyone in this country into a bunch of abject, money grubing, slaves. - mpg 
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Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - May 24 2011  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286587467 
Part 2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286587435 
MRVideo - (JustInTV - 2hrs - May 24th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Topics  include Israel and Obama, the on going disaster at Fukushima and how the web exposed the now officially acknowledged "melt-downs" months ago, the on going slaughter in Libya, Obama's new web czar, the planned war and/or attempted nuke seizure against Pakistan, Israel's attempt to kill Erdogan, the Banksters crimes against us all, and many, many, other issues. - mpg 
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The Alex Jones Show – May 24th, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/24/the-alex-jones-show-may-24th-2011/ 
Must View AJVideo - Intro  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kebBbuz5S88 
NewFilm  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmxSqjSTbCs 
WWIIIbyStealth(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CNg_zxsOEc 
WWIIIbyStealth(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmqjR9Cs6ig 
WWIIIbyStealth(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvAX7r5AogQ 
Hyperventilating Ninnies  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sELyF4KcHY 
WebsterTarpley(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9RBNLEoL_M 
WebsterTarpley(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyQYiOMbXmk 
JeromeCorsi(1/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxfnU2HVkw 
JeromeCorsi(2/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie9fmuSRh0k 
JeromeCorsi(3/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d94q2AKOd9k 
JeromeCorsi(4/4)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7VdBFu5hUU 
(AJYuTb - 5/15min - May 24, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex talks with author, journalist and researcher Webster Tarpley about Pakistan and China’s warning to the United States about a possible invasion of the South Asian nation. Tarpley is the author of Obama – The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography. Alex also talks with author and journalist Jerome Corsi about the ongoing Obama birth certificate issue. Corsi is the author of two New York Times bestselling books: The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality and Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. He writes for WorldNetDaily and Human Events. Alex also covers the latest breaking news and takes your calls." 
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The Crisis In Pakistan.... 

Webster Tarpley & Alex Jones: Buildup to World War III by The Lunatic Ruling Class
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/24/webster-tarpley-alex-jones-buildup-to-world-war-iii-by-the-lunatic-ruling-class/ 
Must Listen AJVideo - WT&AJ(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9RBNLEoL_M  ---  WT&AJ(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyQYiOMbXmk  ---  Note: this video is part of the Alex Jones video set posted above - (AJYuTb - 10/15min - May 24, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex talks with author, journalist and researcher Webster Tarpley about Pakistan and China’s warning to the United States about a possible invasion of the South Asian nation. Tarpley is the author of Obama – The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography. Part 1 of 2" 
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China warns US against war with Pakistan  ---  http://www.eutimes.net/2011/05/china-warns-us-against-war-with-pakistan/ 
Special Note - Geo-Political Warning - Related Article - A quote...."China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington’s planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing. This blunt warning represents the first known strategic ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to Soviet warnings during the Berlin crisis of 1958-1961, and indicates the grave danger of general war growing out of the US-Pakistan confrontation." -- “Any Attack on Pakistan Would be Construed as an Attack on China” 
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Senior Senator: Pakistan Harmed by Relations with US  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9003040772 
Related Article - A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of the Pakistani Senate Standing Committee on Interior Talha Mahmood cautioned about the damages inflicted on the country due to Islamabad's wrong policies on terrorism and its relations with Washington." 
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More On The International Situation....

"War Without Borders": Where do America's Borders lie?  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24945 
A quote...."[Obama] looks much more of a war-monger than his predecessor. The war in Iraq is not over, the war in Afghanistan is going to be lost, there is a new war in Libya, and a number of an uncapped (as appears from Obama’s interview to the BBC) raids and military actions elsewhere in the world." 
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Will NATO Start Bombing Spain? -- The Unsustainable Position of the Empire  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/castro05232011.html 
A quote...."Nobody can assure us that in its agony, the empire won’t be dragging human beings down to catastrophe. -- As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible. I remember well that one day, almost 20 years ago, I said that there was an endangered species: Man." 
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Blast kills four US troops in Afghanistan  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181329.html 
A quote...."A powerful bomb explosion has killed at least four more US-led troops in Afghanistan as foreign forces continue to experience some of their deadliest days in the country." 
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Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan safe after convoy attacked  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/117270 
A quote...."A bomb exploded in front of the police convoy escorting the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party bus after it made a stop in Kastamonu." -- Comment.... 

"Now, what small Mideast nation with a long history of assassination does not like Erdogan?" -- *Michael Rivero* -- Exactly the thought that popped into this website editor's mind. - mpg 
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Iran to Air Confessions of Arrested CIA Spies  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9003040768 
A quote..."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said that the country plans to broadcast the confessions of a number of CIA spies arrested during the operations in recent days." 
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Russia says a fifth of defense budget stolen  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110524/wl_nm/us_russia_defence 
A quote...."MOSCOW (Reuters) – A fifth of Russia's state defense spending is stolen every year by corrupt officials, dishonest generals and crooked contractors, Russia's chief military prosecutor said in an interview published on Tuesday. -- President Dmitry Medvedev says endemic corruption is holding back Russia's development, but anti-bribery groups say the problem has become worse since Medvedev was steered into the Kremlin by his mentor Vladimir Putin in 2008." 
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Is Georgia on the brink of a 'day of rage'?
  ---  http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110523/wl_csm/385622;_ylt=Alfgz1CHJqZgrTm1fmWDPfVk24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTJwbWhucTE5BGFzc2V0A2NzbS8y 
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Special Note -- A quote...."Moscow – After three days of sometimes violent street demonstrations, Georgian opposition leaders on Monday promised a "day of rage" on May 25 that will sweep away President Mikhael Saakashvili – who has withstood similar protest waves against his controversial seven-year rule in the past. -- Irakli Okruashvili, a former Defense minister who turned against Mr. Saakashvili and is wanted by Georgian authorities, has pledged to end his four-year exile in France and return Wednesday to lead what he has openly suggested could include a military mutiny to overthrow the regime." 
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The Assault On Libya.... 

Dispatch From Tripoli - NATO's Feast of Blood  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/mckinney05242011.html 
Must Read - A quote...."By Cynthia McKinney - While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by the United States in response to the Soviet Union's survival as a Communist state. NATO was the U.S. insurance policy that capitalist ownership and domination of European, Asian, and African economies would continue. This also would ensure the survival of the then-extant global apartheid." 
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28182.htm 
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'US violating War Powers Act in Libya'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181556.html 
Contains Video - A quote...."The US military's involvement in NATO attacks on Libya beyond May 20 has “no legal basis” since it is not authorized by Congress, international lawyer Paul Wolf says." 
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More NATO airstrikes rattle Tripoli  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181582.html 
A quote...."More NATO airstrikes have hit Tripoli, with the latest attacks targeting Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi's residence once again." 
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NATO bombing of Tripoli kills 19 civilians, wounds 150  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/liby-m25.shtml 
A quote..."In the most intensive bombardment since the US and NATO launched their war of aggression against Libya, strikes by British and other NATO warplanes in the early hours of Tuesday morning killed 19 Libyan civilians. Another 150 were wounded, some of them seriously, according to Libya’s health ministry, the General People’s Committee for Health." 
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Shock and Awe in Libya: Heaviest NATO Bombing Since Start of Conflict While Obama Administration Offers al Qaeda Linked “Rebels” an Office in D.C.
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/shock-and-awe-in-libya-heaviest-nato-bombing-since-start-of-conflict-while-obama-administration-offers-al-qaeda-linked-rebels-an-office-in-d-c/ 
A quote...."At least 18 NATO rockets slammed into targets in Tripoli last night creating a scene that looks eerily like those first few days of Shock and Awe in Iraq. Civilian casualties poured into local hospitals while CNN refused to go to the hospital to report on those casualties because of “safety concerns”." 
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More on the World Wide Revolution.... 

French Group Calls for Spain-Style Street Protests  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/24-8 
A quote...."PARIS - A French group has called for a large demonstration in Paris this weekend to show solidarity with tens of thousands of youth protesters demonstrating against austerity programs in Spain." - Source:  Reuters
  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-france-protests-idUSTRE74N66620110524 
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The Revolution Has Started In Spain (Update 5)  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/23/revolution-started-spain-22885/ 
A quote...."The revolution has started in Spain as tens of thousands take to the streets in protest of high unemployment and draconian austerity measures." 
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Yemen officials: 38 killed in Sanaa fighting
  ---  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/8534670/Yemen-officials-38-killed-in-Sanaa-fighting.html 
A quote...."Fighters from Yemen's powerful tribes fired on government buildings on Tuesday, prompting soldiers to respond with intense shelling in street battles that left at least 38 dead as the uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh threatened to become a militia-led revolt." 
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Yemen's Shia dilemma
  ---  http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/201152483619116456.html 
Powerful Yemeni tribe turns guns against leader Saleh
  ---  http://www.todayszaman.com/news-244972-powerful-yemeni-tribe-turns-guns-against-leader-saleh.html 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

US And IAEA Knew Fukushima Had Meltdown Within 3.5 Hours Since March And Hid It From The Public
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/24/iaea-knew-fukushima-meltdown-35-hours-march-hid-public-22921/ 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgRadiation Alert - Cover-Up Exposed - A quote...."A new report reveals that US and IAEA officials knew since March that the Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered a nuclear meltdown with 3.5 hours of the Japan earthquake and hid it from the public." 
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What Price the Fukushima Meltdown? Comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima  ---  http://japanfocus.org/-Matthew-Penney/3535 
Special Note - A quote...."On April 12, 2011 the Japanese government officially announced that the severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster had reached level 7, the highest on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Before Fukushima, the only level 7 case was the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, whose 25th anniversary was marked on April 26. Two and a half months after the 3.11 catastrophe, the first to affect multiple reactors, TEPCO and the Japanese government continue to struggle to bring the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi under control. TEPCO estimates that the problems could be solved in six to nine months now appearing extraordinarily optimistic and plans have been announced to close nuclear power plants deemed of particularly high risk such as the Hamaoka facility."
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24949 
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70 000 must evacuate around Fukushima  ---  http://www.news24.com/World/News/70-000-must-evacuate-around-Fukushima-20110524 
A quote...."Paris - Seventy thousand people living beyond the 20km no-go zone around Fukushima should be evacuated because of radioactivity deposited by the crippled nuclear plant, a watchdog said. -- Updating its assessment of the March 11 disaster, France's Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) highlighted an area northwest of the plant that lies beyond the 20km zone whose inhabitants have already been evacuated. -- Radioactivity levels in this area range from several hundred becquerels per square metre to thousands or even several million bequerels per square metre, the IRSN report, issued late on Monday, said." 
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Fukushima Containment Vessels May Be Leaking, Tepco Says
  ---  http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-05-25/fukushima-containment-vessels-may-be-leaking-tepco-says.html 
More Melted Fuel At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant Uncovered During UN Probe
  ---  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/24/more-melted-fuel-japan-fukushima-un-probe_n_866315.html 
Soil contamination from Fukushima crisis comparable to Chernobyl: study - Oh, it's MUCH worse. - mpg
  ---  http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/soil-contamination-from-fukushima-crisis-comparable-to-chernobyl-study 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere 

“Israel Is Not Alone” member knocks phone out of my hand  ---  http://mycatbirdseat.com/2011/05/alison-weir-tempers-flare-post-cni-press-briefing/ 
Must Read - Contains Video - PRSTVVideo  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqPph7gsNiw  ---  PRSTVArticle  ---  http://presstv.com/detail/181400.html  ---  (PRSTVYuTb - 2min37sec - May 23, 2011) - Source:  newsupload2010  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/newsupload2010  ---  A quote...."We had just completed a CNI press briefing at the National Press Club, when the next group scheduled to use the room, “Israel Is Not Alone,” began to enter. One of their members saw our signs and began a discussion with a member of the CNI group. The conversation was heated but within appropriate bounds. Another “Israel Is Not Alone” member, however, then approached the CNI man in a somewhat threatening posture and loudly began to berate him." 
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Protester who heckled Netanyahu in Congress allegedly beaten, arrested at hospital
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/24/protester-who-heckled-netanyahu-in-congress-allegedly-beaten-arrested-at-hospital/ 
A quote...."CODEPINK activist Rae Abileah was arrested at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C. after heckling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the anti-war group. -- The 28-year-old Jewish American woman was allegedly tackled by members of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) during Netanyahu's speech to Congress after she yelled, "stop Israeli war crimes."
also posted at ICH  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28184.htm 
& Intifada  ---  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/05/protester-who-heckled-netanyahu-in-congress-allegedly-beaten-arrested-at-hospital/ 
& MidEastMag  ---  http://www.mideastmag.com/42362/protester-who-heckled-netanyahu-in-congress-allegedly-beaten-arrested-at-hospital/ 
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Obama Genuflects to AIPAC  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/24/obama-genuflects-to-aipac/ 
Genuflects to AIPAC:  def.  To get on one's knees, pucker up, and fervently kiss AIPAC butt. - mpg -- A quote...."Edward Said once called AIPAC “the most powerful and feared lobby in Washington.” For years, it’s “drawn on a well-organized, well-connected, highly visible, successful, and wealthy Jewish population,” subverting potential opposition. -- As a result, fear and respect “for AIPAC (exists) all over the country, but especially in Washington, where in a matter of hours, almost the entire Senate can be marshaled into signing a letter to the president on Israel’s behalf. Who is going to oppose AIPAC and continue to have a career in Congress, or” to represent the Palestinian cause “when nothing concrete can be offered by that cause to anyone who stands up to AIPAC?”
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m78022&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The Palestinian Situation 

BREAKING NEWS: Humanitarian Ship to Gaza Running out of Food and Water  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24916 
Spirit of Rachel Corrie - A quote...."According to our latest communication (satellite phone) from the ship, the boat is still stranded in territorial waters. -- The Egyptian port authorities have not received instructions to allow the ship to berth, despite the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which was communicated to the Malaysian embassy. According to sources, it would appear that the decision is being blocked by Egypt's Military Intelligence, in consultation with Tel Aviv and Washington. -- Meanwhile the ship has become a de facto prison. It is running out of water and food." 
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Lawsuit filed to seek information on US role in deadly flotilla attack
  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/blog/maureen/lawsuit-filed-seek-information-us-role-deadly-flotilla-attack 
Justice in Action - A quote...."The Center for Constitutional Rights launched a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit today seeking documents regarding the US government’s knowledge and role in the deadly Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla this time last year. - Amongst the nine civilians killed in the raid in international waters was 18-year-old Furkan Dogan, a US citizen, “who was shot several times as he was filming the 4:00am raid, and then shot in the face at point blank range as he lay there wounded,” according to the Center for Constitional Rights’s press release. “Fifteen other U.S. citizens participated in the flotilla, including five who traveled on a U.S. registered boat; many were beaten and injured,” CCR adds in its press statement." 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m78032&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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‘Open’ Borders Do Not Open Economy  ---  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55756  ---  Especially when the borders aren't really open. - mpg 
A quote...."RAMALLAH, May 24, 2011 (IPS) - Despite the Egyptian revolution, which ousted Israeli ally and former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and despite Israel’s claim to have eased the blockade on Gaza following last year’s bloody clashes on the ill-fated Mavi Marmara flotilla, the coastal territory’s economy remains crippled thanks to both countries." 
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Throw a shoe at Obama’s betrayal  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/content/throw-shoe-obamas-betrayal/10000 
A quote...."At 4:17pm GMT on Sunday, I threw a shoe at my television screen, aimed at US President Barack Obama, precisely at the moment he began to explain that the reference in his Thursday speech at the State Department to the 1967 borders was in accordance with the Israeli interpretation of these borders."
also posted at CommonDream  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24-6 
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Russia announces unequivocal support for unity deal  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=390529 
A quote...."MOSCOW (Ma'an) -- Russia supports Palestinian unity efforts as a step toward regional stability, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavarov told Palestinian factional representatives in Moscow on Monday evening." 
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Izbat al-Tabib village resists land confiscation, demolition orders
  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/content/izbat-al-tabib-village-resists-land-confiscation-demolition-orders/10004 
A quote...."One may not expect to see construction in a village where approximately 80 percent of the homes are currently pending demolition. But in Izbat al-Tabib, a small village less than ten kilometers away from the green line, Israel’s internationally-recognized armistice line with the occupied West Bank, and the wall-confined city of Qalqilya, that is just what one will find." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m78021&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Israeli court sentences teen to 6 months  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=390272 
A quote...."RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israel's military judges on Monday issued a six-month jail sentence to a teenager from Bil'in village near Ramallah."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77995&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Keiser Report: Savers vs Speculators (E149) - May 24th 2011  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/5/skwj6e9xvH8 
MKVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skwj6e9xvH8  ---  (MKRTYuTb - (MKRTYuTb - 25min56sec - May 24th, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  Producer:  Max Keiser TV  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV  ---  A quote...."This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on color-coded prostitutes for Munich Re, financial repression for the U.S.A. and a New World Order of growth accelerated exploding watermelons for China. In the second half of the show, Max talks to a former banker at Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns, Nomi Prins (author of It Takes a Pillage) about Matt Taibbis The People versus Goldman Sachs and about the IMF." 
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The 'Baseball' Economy: The Fed Strikes Out  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogmay11/baseball-economy5-11.html 
A quote...."The "too big to fail" banks and speculators have swung at the fat slow pitches, but no one's on base: few jobs have been created by the Fed-fueled rampant financial speculation. Speculating in financial games has added a few jobs to Wall Street, but it accomplishes precious little the real economy. the Fed's game plan boils down to funneling billions of dollars to the top 5% of the households who benefit from rampant speculation in stocks and financial instruments, and then hoping their purchases of Porsches, Coach handbags and $100 bottle of wine in high-end restaurants will "trickle down" to the real economy." 
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$35 Billion In 2 Year Treasurys Price As Primary Dealers Take Down Half, More Retirement Funds Squeezed To Make Room Under Ceiling
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/35-billion-2-year-treasurys-price-primary-dealers-take-down-half-more-retirement-funds-squee 
Chart - A quote...."The fact that the US is at the debt ceiling, and every incremental dollar of debt issued has to be met with a comparable underfunding in [Fed] retirement funds is not bothering the SecTres (at least until August 2 at which point all mechanisms to delay the ceiling breach expire)." - bold by website editor 
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There's no way out for Greece  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28179.htm 
Special Note - A quote...."May 24, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Stocks plunged on Monday as Europe's sovereign-debt crisis deepened and bond yields across the EU periphery headed sharply higher. The euro fell hard against the dollar ($1.40) while the Greek 10-year bond spiked to 17 percent before mounting a modest comeback. The situation is getting desperate. Most economists now believe that Greece will have to restructure its debt. But bondholders are doing everything they can to make sure that doesn't happen because they stand to lose billions on their investments. So, they've thrown their weight behind ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet, EU policymakers, and the IMF, all of which are trying to pressure Greece to accept harsher austerity measures in order to avoid default. But the plan isn't working. Greece's finances are getting worse by the day. Something will have to be done soon or Greece's troubles will send markets into a nosedive." 
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Nevada budget deficit highest in nation  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/neva-m25.shtml 
A quote...."Nevada currently leads the US in unemployment, bankruptcies and foreclosures, and now has a budget deficit that stands at 54 percent of the total state budget, the highest percentage in the nation. This inevitably points in the direction of draconian attacks by state politicians on social services, education, as well as workers’ pay, benefits and working conditions in the coming weeks and months." 
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Ratings agency Moodys puts 14 UK banks on review for potential credit rating downgrades
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Ratings_agency_Moodys_puts_14_UK_banks_on_review_for_potential_credit_rating_downgrades/14020/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
Dang!!  Being the New Roman Empire's and Israel's little lackey can get really expensive!! - mpg -- A quote...."LONDON — Ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service has put 14 British banks on review for potential credit rating downgrades, citing the lack of any state-sponsored bailouts in the future."
Source:  WaPo  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ratings-agency-moodys-puts-14-uk-banks-on-review-for-potential-credit-rating-downgrades/2011/05/24/AFN3iPAH_story.html 
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Cost of mortgages and loans [in Britian] could rise as banks face prospect of credit ratings being downgraded
  ---  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390322/Cost-mortgages-loans-rise-banks-face-prospect-credit-ratings-downgraded.html 
Related Article - A quote...."The cost of borrowing is at risk of rising after more than a dozen banks and building societies were told their credit ratings could be downgraded after the Government refused to guarantee their survival. -- Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland are two of the 14 institutions that have been put under review by top ratings agency Moody's because it believes any future crises will not be met with taxpayer-funded bailouts." - WHAT!!  The formally endless stream of government bail-out money isn't so endless?  the question would be why....and why now....and who made THAT decision? - mpg 
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SocGen On Why Japan's Plunging Pension Reserves May "Cause Havoc" To The Japanese Bond Market
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/socgen-why-japans-plunging-pension-reserves-may-cause-havoc-japanese-bond-market 
A quote...."A month ago, we reported that the Japanese public pension fund, which holds JPY152 trillion in total reserves, would for the first time withdraw 6.4 trillion yen in order to cover pension payouts, a process which once started, eventually ends up with the "Illinois" conclusion where it has to issue bonds to pay accrued pension obligations. The reason why the Japanese pension fund is particularly important for japan is that not only does it have implications for the welfare system of the land of the rising sun, any future dispositions will explicitly affect the supply and demand of JGBs, of which pension funds have traditionally been a major buyer. Not only that, but as Dylan Grice reminded us some time ago, a liquidation process would also impair US Treasury holdings: " - bold by website editor 
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Monday May 23rd 2011 - links page

More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™.... 

Washington Still Working Hard to Plug Gaps in The Bin Laden Story
  ---  http://21stcenturywire.com/2011/05/23/washington-still-working-hard-to-plug-gaps-in-the-bin-laden-story/ 
Special Note - Contains Videos - JessicaLynchMyth  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IBZKCgobqo  ---  PatTilman  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcqLlT44rR8  ---  A quote...."Washington’s running serial thriller, The Assassination of Osama bin Laden continued this week, as the Pentagon’s department of media and information released its latest chapter, still hoping to plug some of the remaining major holes in their fracturing fable."
also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24923 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

The Patriot Act: When Truth Becomes Treason  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/23/the-patriot-act-when-truth-becomes-treason/ 
Must Read - A quote...."Most Americans believe they understand the dangers of the Patriot Act, which Congress has vowed to extend 4 more years in a vote later this week. Trust me when I say, Americans are not nearly frightened enough. -- Ever wonder why the truth about 9/11 never got exposed? Why Americans don’t have a clue about leadership fraud surrounding the War on Terror? -- Why Americans don’t know if the 9/11 investigation was really successful? Why the Iraqi Peace Option draws a blank? Somebody has known the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden— or his grave—for the past 10 years. But nobody’s talking to the people." 
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Hollow Spy Coins  ---  http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/b308/ 
Anti-Police State Tech Note - A quote...."Each coin is precision hand milled to create a secret compartment inside. Once closed, it's virtually impossible to distinguish these spy coins from a regular coin. Store your secrets then pass it off to your undercover contact as pocket change... no one will be the wiser. The half dollar is even capable of storing a micro SD card. Just think, gigs of data in a coin... 007 would be so jealous." 
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Landmark Case Could Stymie Legal System  ---  http://www.henrymakow.com/hill.html 
A quote...."For those of you who have been following the John Anthony Hill (JAH) Case, it is great to be able to  share that he was acquitted, on the 12th of May 2011, of the ridiculous and politically-motivated charge of  attempting to "pervert the course of justice".  For those of you less familiar with this landmark case, John Anthony  Hill is the Producer of the documentary film "7/7 Ripple Effect".  For more details about this extraordinary case and  the trial itself, please visit the following links...." 
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Citizens Arrest Unlawful Judge; Sieze Court  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/22/censored-by-the-british-goverment-citizens-arrest-unlawful-judge-sieze-court/ 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEkQrMUl0o4  ---  (YuTb - 7min46sec - May 20, 2011) - Source:  alexhiggins732  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/alexhiggins732  ---  A quote...."This Video has Been Censored By The British Government" 
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Guantánamo Suicide Was Severely Mentally Ill, And Was A Case of Mistaken Identity  ---  http://uruknet.com/?p=m77977&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."There is cruelty. There is stupidity. And far too often, when it comes to the activities of the US government in the "War on Terror," there is both."
Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909 
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Richard Gage and Bob Tuskin: 9/11 Truth  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/23/richard-gage-and-bob-tuskin-911-truth/ 
Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zWww0K6His  ---  (YuTb - 10min36sec - May 23, 2011) - Source:  NotForSale2NWO  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/NotForSale2NWO  ---  A quote...."Bob Tuskin interviews Richard Gage on a variety of issues after the Atlanta 911 Truth conference." 
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Report: Intelligence Unit Told Before 9/11 to Stop Tracking Bin Laden
  ---  http://www.truthout.org/report-intelligence-unit-told-911-stop-tracking-bin-laden/1306159803 
Special Note - A quote...."A great deal of controversy has arisen about what was known about the movements and location of Osama bin Laden in the wake of his killing by US Special Forces on May 2 in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Questions about what intelligence agencies knew or didn't know about al-Qaeda activities go back some years, most prominently in the controversy over the existence of a joint US Special Forces Command and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) data mining effort known as "Able Danger." - also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24924 
& BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Report%3A_Intelligence_Unit_Told_Before_911_to_Stop_Tracking_Bin_Laden/14009/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
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People Could Have Planted Bombs In the World Trade Center Without Anyone Noticing
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/no-it-wouldnt-have-been-impossible-to.html 
Contains Videos - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ekNosnieQ  ---  A quote...."In 1978, the 59-story story Citicorp building was secretly retrofitted at night over the course of several months without the knowledge of tenants, the general public, or the media...." - also posted at DProgram
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/23/people-could-have-planted-bombs-in-the-world-trade-center-without-anyone-noticing/ 
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'Sending soldiers to die on a lie in Iraq gross govt crime'  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/12/HDtoWCuXKtI 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtoWCuXKtI  ---  (RTYuTb - 3min18sec - May 22, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."The British military operation in Iraq has ended after more than 8 years, with the last group of Royal Navy training staff now having pulled out. The UK joined the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, under the pretext of destroying Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. British anti-war activist John Rees says the UK made a great mistake when it went into Iraq." 
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73,846 US Iraq War Soldiers Dead How they manipulated the numbers to fool you  ---  http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread699497/pg1 
A quote...."More Gulf War Veterans have died than Vietnam Veterans. This probably is news to you. But the truth has been hidden by a technicality. So here is the truth." - also posted at DProgram  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/23/73846-us-soldiers-dead-from-both-gulf-wars-how-they-manipulated-the-numbers-to-fool-you/ 
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Lack of media coverage and indiference of the Obama Administration to the flooding in the Midwest  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/117055 
A quote...."I will tell you why the media is no longer paying attention to the massive flooding hitting our nation. Because like Katrina, and like the Gulf Oil Disaster, and like last weekend's DNS attacks, the current flooding proves that the US Federal Government has, in their devotion to taking care of Israel, not taken any care at all of the United States." -- *Michael Rivero* 
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The Alex Jones Show – May 20th, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/21/the-alex-jones-show-may-20th-2011/ 
AJVideo - Intro  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omo3L-wNmmc 
100%Theater  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn7iQ8vX5cY 
WolfInSheepsClthng(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXQ2o09n9vw 
WolfInSheepsClthng(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2W6oS5jASw 
GovtCnsrsYuTb  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z8ITM7XqHA 
AJTakesCalls(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi-JbRsRSaU 
AJTakesCalls(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YnBwM1EZcI 
JeromeCorsi(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BygadqqiFH8 
JeromeCorsi(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqvvqGqpkgE 
JeromeCorsi(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9z_-eKOG0 
BobChapman(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edv8soan42U 
BobChapman(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys6RR2QW7NQ  ---  (AJYuTb - 10/15min - May 20, 2011) - TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."A quote...."Alex talks with author and investigative journalist Jerome Corsi about the Obama birth certificate fiasco. Corsi is the author of Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President, now available at the Infowars Store. In the book, Corsi assembles evidence that Barack Obama is constitutionally ineligible for the office of the presidency and has spent millions of dollars in legal fees to avoid providing the American people with something as simple as a long-form birth certificate. Alex also talks with regular Friday guest, Bob Chapman, publisher of The International Forecaster. Alex gets to the bottom of the latest news and takes your calls." 
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Alan Watt ‘Cutting Through The Matrix’ – May 20th, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/21/alan-watt-cutting-through-the-matrix-may-20th-2011/ 
Audio - Contains Links - (46m44s - May 20th, 2011) - Producer:  AlanWatt/CuttingThroughTheMatrix  ---  http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/  ---  A quote...."Topics: America Built with a Mission and for a Purpose – Job of U.S. to Lead the World into New System – People Given Rights and Freedom for a Time – US-British Alliance, “Special Relationship” – Public Avoid “Bad News”, Choose Not to Know – Getting Out of Britain – Culture Creation, Promotion of Promiscuity and Debasement – The Walking Dead, Perfectly Conditioned – Casinos – Fukushima Reactors, Still Melting Down – Nuclear Industry – Higher-Educated Classes Easiest to Update in Political Correctness – Moors and Architecture, Age of Gathering Intelligence – Spain, Phoenicia, Venice, Moneylenders and Trade – The Assassins sect and their Training – Little Boy, Fat Man and Lazy Boy – Coming (Planned) Food Crisis – Monsanto, Genetically-Modified   Food."
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Broadcasting LIVE on Justin.tv - May 23 2011  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286519832 
Part 2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286519856 
Must Listen MRVideo - (JustInTV - 2hrs - May 23rd, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Transcript:  In response to a listener's question (Scott) regarding Utah's recent passage of legislation to allow the use of silver and gold coins (at 57 min)..... 
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"It's very instructive when you come to understand that when the United States of America was formed, all money was supposed to be silver and gold coin, or a claim check thereof.  Yes, there was paper money, but the paper money wasn't "the money", it was merely a claim check that you could take to the bank and get the silver and gold on demand.  THAT was the legal money, and printing paper certificates or coins that were not silver and gold, that weren't backed by anything....that was punishable by death under the coinage act of 1792."   

"So now all of sudden we've gone through the mirror of the Federal Reserve, where these pretty printed pieces of paper that are backed with nothing at all are the mandatory legal tender in the United States of America and silver and gold coins are in some cases, as we saw with the Liberty Dollar, are open to prosecution. So I think what's going to happen here in Utah is this is going to create a state's right issue. There's going to be a conflict between the federal government that wants us all slaves to the Federal Reserve and the state of Utah that wants a value based currency for their own people to use."   

"And remember this debate has ended in deaths before, you had Abraham Lincoln who issued his "green-backs", you had Kennedy who issued a new version of silver certificates called US Notes, and they were killed.  So I expect a huge, huge, fight on this and it may be the action which basically provokes the beginning of the states succeeding from the Federal government. Because the states understand, just as you and I understand, that if we stay with the Federal Reserve system we are ALL doomed to homelessness and poverty...."  

Responding to Scott's question about Libya and Gaddafi's prior attempts to introduce the gold dinar....    

"We're going to follow this very, very closely, because the money junkies behind the International Monetary Fund, and the Federal Reserve which is a sort of "IMF Lite"....local branch, they're playing this huge scam on the entire planet, called a debt based currency.  They have a license to counterfeit from every government that allows them to parasitize their people, and they use their money to buy their way into more and more governments [and economic systems] and they're trying to bring this system of banking to the entire world even at the point of a bayonet."   

"When we talk about this "clash of civilizations" between the "West" and Islam, what this is really about is a "clash of banking systems".  Compound interest and fiat debt based currency -- versus -- value based currency and loan plus fee lending in the Islamic states."   

Our kids are dying over a banking system war....and I think that's a really stupid reason." -- *Michael Rivero*   

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More On The International Situation.... 

Afghanistan: 5 NATO-led troops killed in east  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77991&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."KABUL (PAN): Five foreign troops were killed in improvised explosive device attacks in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. " 
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As Spain's Socialists Lose Local Elections, The Bond Vigilantes Stir
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/spains-socialists-lose-local-elections-piigs-bond-vigilantes-stir 
There are exactly TWO and only TWO choices available at this time in history for most people in the so-called "West".  Their governments can be so constructed that they support well regulated free-markets within national structures and even international ones, a non-fiat currency of some sort, socialist programs if they wish, and a democratic, constitutional and lawful political system - OR - Their governments can be so bought as to guarantee endless and increasing amounts of debt/fiat currency, faux-financial instruments, and qualdrillions in derivatives, to support the US-NRE's Banksters and their dreams of empire across the Middle East (for now), along with the rest of the world (for later), endless, vicious, illegal wars, the evisceration of all their social programs, their national constitutions and their civil rights along with increasing poverty and an ever expanding, ever more repressive, police state. - It's their choice. - mpg 
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'China backs Iran's nuclear rights'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181257.html 
A quote...."Iranian Ambassador to Beijing Mehdi Safari says China has always thrown its weight behind the Islamic Republic's right to use nuclear technology for peaceful applications." 
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Pakistan turns to China for naval base  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Pakistan_turns_to_China_for_naval_base/14000/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."Pakistan has asked China to build a naval base at its south-western port of Gwadar and expects the Chinese navy to maintain a regular presence there, a plan likely to alarm both India and the US. -- “We have asked our Chinese brothers to please build a naval base at Gwadar,” Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar, Pakistan’s defence minister, told the Financial Times, confirming that the request was conveyed to China during a visit last week by Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan’s prime minister." - Source:  Financial Times  ---  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3914bd36-8467-11e0-afcb-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1N7nh0Wb3 
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Saudi Arabia, UAE funded jihadi networks in Pakistan:  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/22/wikileaks-saudi-arabia-uae-funded-jihad-pakistan-children/ 
(This is old news from WikiLeaks - mpg) -- OF COURSE THEY DID, and they STILL ARE!!  With the full support of the US-NRE, Britain and Israel, and it's not just Pakistan, these countries have funded Jihadist networks everywhere  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/ussupportofterror-weblist-mpg-090306  ---  throughout the entire Middle East for three decades!!!  The US-NRE, is at this very moment, supporting al-CIA'da elements against the Libyan government.  This has already been publicly acknowledged.  Within days of the start of the US-NRE's  pre-planned Libyan takeover, the US-NRE, and more specifically the Obama administration, was asking for Saudi Royal support!!  The US-NRE in conjunction with the other two members of the Trinity of Evil, created al-CIA'da and still supports al-CIA'da to this very day. So for all you Bush/Obama voting monumentally stupid morons out there, for all you Neocons, for all you bona fide members of the AIPAC/Israeli Consortium.... please stop pretending!!  Please....it's childish, it's pathetic, and most importantly, it's BORING!!! - mpg 
Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810 
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Iran to name 26 blacklisted US officials  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181380.html 
Special Note - Now THIS is a good idea.  Countires everywhere should honor this list. - mpg -- A quote...."The bill has not been finalized or approved by the National Security Commission but the proposal envisions imposing sanctions on 26 American officials by the Islamic Republic,” deputy chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said." 
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Iran Calls on EU to Drop Blind Obedience to US  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9003030790 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast lashed out at the European Union for its blind obedience to Washington's wrong policies towards Iran." 
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UK paper calls Press TV 'enemy within'  ---  http://hamsayeh.net/world/736-uk-paper-calls-press-tv-enemy-within.html 
Press Censorship - A quote...."The US State Department cables published by WikiLeaks demonstrate that the British Foreign Office told the US embassy in London back in February 2010 that it was "exploring ways to limit the operations of… Press TV." 
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Investment bankers salivate over North Africa  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/investment-bankers-salivate-over-north-africa/ 
A quote...."Investment banking is usually thought of as a field that values stability. Yet the greatest rewards are often attained through destabilization." 
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The Assault On Libya.... 

The Real Reason for NATO Attacking Libya EXPOSED  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O35_Ai6EsMU&sns=fb 
RTVideo Repost - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuqZfaj34nc  ---  (previously posted 05-05-11) - (RTYuTb - 3min31sec May 6, 2011) - Source:  mmt2k9  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/mmt2k9  ---  A quote...."Some believe it is about protecting civilians, others say it is about oil, but some are convinced intervention in Libya is all about Gaddafi's plan to introduce the gold dinar, a single African currency made from gold, a true sharing of the wealth." 
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NATO airstrikes hit Tripoli, heaviest bombing yet
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/NATO_airstrikes_hit_Tripoli%2C_heaviest_bombing_yet_/14015/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."TRIPOLI, Libya – NATO warplanes bombarded targets in Tripoli with more than 20 airstrikes early Tuesday, striking around Moammar Gadhafi's residential compound in what appeared to be the heaviest night of bombing of the Libyan capital since the Western alliance launched its air campaign against his forces." 
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The Libyan war and American democracy  [da'mockery]  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/pers-m24.shtml 
A quote...."The Obama administration has allowed a 60-day legal deadline for obtaining congressional approval for the US war against Libya to expire without taking any action. The deadline passed on Friday, May 20, with barely any notice taken in the American media or in official political circles." 
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More on the World Wide Revolution.... 

Egyptian Groups Call for Second Round of ‘Rage’ Protests on Lack of Change
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-22/egypt-groups-call-for-second-round-of-rage-on-lack-of-change.html 
A quote...."Egyptian pro-democracy groups are calling for a second round of so-called “rage” protests on May 27 because of a lack of political progress and perceived failure to prosecute members of former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime." 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Decay heat in Fukushima reactors  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/117106 
Contains Video - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Lg88ECaCE  ---  A quote...."As we noted last week, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announced it believes the fuel in Fukushima Daiichi reactor 1—and possibly reactors 2 and 3—has melted and is sitting in a lump at the bottom of the reactor vessel. But it believes that workers have been able to keep the lump cool enough that it has not melted through the bottom of the reactor." 
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After Over A Week US Media Finally Acknowledges Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown In 3 Reactors
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/24/week-media-finally-acknowledges-fukushima-nuclear-meltdown-3-reactors-22917/ 
A quote...."After over a week has passed since TEPCO first admitted to nuclear meltdowns in 3 of the Fukushima nuclear reactors, the US corporate media finally acknowledges the reports." 
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Two Nuclear Reactors Were Damaged by the Earthquake, BEFORE the Tsunami Hit ... and the Entire Nuclear Reactor Design Is Flawed
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/two-nuclear-reactors-were-damaged-by.html 
A quote...."Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen just confirmed that some of the Japanese nuclear reactors were severely damaged even before the tsunami hit. -- Specifically, Gundersen reports that the containment vessel at Fukushima 1 started leaking and melting down before the tsunami hit. Similarly, Gundersen notes that the fuel pool at reactor 4 cracked and started leaking after the earthquake and before the water hit." 
Topix ||  Was Stuxnet Designed to Cause A Melt-Down On Que - 03-23-11 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/wasstuxnetdesignedtocauseameltdownonque-mpg-reficultnias-032311 
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Fukushima reactor had meltdown 3.5 hours after cooling system collapsed: U.S. researcher
  ---  http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110523p2a00m0na019000c.html 
A quote...."A meltdown occurred at one of the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant three and a half hours after its cooling system started malfunctioning, according to the result of a simulation using "severe accident" analyzing software developed by the Idaho National Laboratory." 
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Radiation News 05-23-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (3 articles & videos)
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/23/radiation-news-5-23-11/ 
Japan's Tepco Confirms Meltdowns of 2 More Fukushima Reactors
  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/23-8 
Src  ---  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/japan-tepco-reactors-idUSL3E7GO03B20110524 
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More Tales From the Zio-Sphere 

'US lawmakers forced to support Israel'  ---  http://presstv.com/detail/181231.html 
Contains Video - A quote...."Former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney says every candidate for Congress has to sign a pledge to vote for supporting the military superiority of Israel." 
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Israel Again and Again Slaps a Cowardly America  ---  http://mycatbirdseat.com/2011/05/israel-again-and-again-slaps-a-cowardly-america/ 
Another term comes to mind besides "slap": - mpg -- A quote..."What you are in essence and action is a nation of ignorant cowards, SLAVES, to be exact, to the very nation you created and continue to pay for with your tax dollars, weapons, and the lives of your sons and daughters—Israel. -- What you are is a nation of fools according to Israel, “detached from reality”; “delusional”, and full of “illusions”; in other words a nation of mental defects who are unaware of who’s the real boss of this nation and your supposedly elected government." 
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More On The Palestinian Situation 

Israel detains mother of senior Hamas official
  ---  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7n0VO4inSgGDVvaA2sV%2b1Bj7e9gVwu5
QLAVXbI7%2fGmPwygik1%2bmXNY7EkdD%2btYuhIojnXpiNOqT6uX4yeeY3xuzHyeOM4eeEn82qr3pEDoNc%3d 
A quote...."RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Israeli forces arrested Monday morning the mother of senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri after raiding her home in Aroura village near Ramallah." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/israel-detains-mother-of-senior-hamas-official/ 
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Israeli right mocks Obama's rapid submission to Netanyahu
  ---  http://english.ahram.org.eg/%7E/NewsContent/2/8/12741/World/Region/Israeli-right-mocks-Obamas-rapid-submission-to-Net.aspx 
"Submission"?  More like Obama got on his knees, puckered up, and kissed Netanyahu's butt.  It's just disgusting." - mpg -- A quote...."Lauded by settlers and derided by commentators, the US president's AIPAC speech is portrayed as a victory for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m78010&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

The Fed Lacks the Tools AND the Intelligence to Tighten  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fed-lacks-tools-and-intelligence-tighten 
A quote...."The financial media is filled with commentators who are now speculating that the Fed may begin tightening soon. --  This entire debate is moronic. The Fed’s done nothing but loosen monetary policy since the Financial Crisis began. Since 2007, the Fed didn’t even bother to think of stepping on the brakes when it came to monetary policy." 
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Day of reckoning for commercial real estate in 2012 – largest amount of loans maturing next year as $150 billion in CRE debt comes due.
  ---  http://www.mybudget360.com/day-of-reckoning-commercial-real-estate-in-2012-cre-debt-due-2012-loans/ 
A quote...."The Federal Reserve has tried its best to hide the secrets of past banking blunders deep in its balance sheet.  Commercial real estate (CRE) loans made in haste during the real estate bubble are part of this national disgrace in banking folly." 
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QE2 was a bust - Economic data is worse than before  ---  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/qe2-was-a-bust-2011-05-21 
How could the author of this article say such things?  The Banksters got their banks bailed out, the TBTF are even more TBTF, commissions and bonuses on Wall Streets soared almost to the heady levels not seen since 2007, and some firms even produced all time records in compensation.  QE2 was an outstanding success for the top "one percent". - mpg 
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Chicago Fed National Activity Index Drops To -0.45, Lowest Since August 2010
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/chicago-fed-national-activity-index-drops-045-lowest-august-2010-economy-enters-below-averag 
A quote...."Another diffusion contraction confirms the stagflation thesis is playing out just as expected. "Led by declines in production-related indicators, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index fell to –0.45 in April from +0.32 in March. April marked the lowest reading of the index since August 2010. " 
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Capital Context Update: Credit Crumbling  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/capital-context-update-credit-crumbling 
Mrkt Tech Note - A quote...."The message has been loud and clear from us for a while - that credit has been anticipating problems and the last few days has seen a re-emergence of the equity recognition of this as stocks pull back to more realistic relative valuations to credit. Secondary bond selling was significant today also - especially in financials as we suspect macro overlays have been lifted and underlying positions liquidated as fears are not abating." 
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China Prepares To Launch Gold ETFs As Utah Becomes First State To Make Gold And Silver Legal Tender
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/china-prepares-launch-gold-etfs-utah-becomes-first-state-make-gold-and-silver-legal-tender 
A quote...."Following Friday's news that China has now surpassed India as the world's largest buyer of gold, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the country is trying to capitalize on the popular interest in the precious metal by transferring the trading infrastructure away from US to domestic capital markets." 
also posted at BLN  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/China_Prepares_To_Launch_Gold_ETFs_As_Utah_Becomes_First_State_To_Make_Gold_A
nd_Silver_Legal_Tender_/14004/0/0/0/Y/M.html  ---  Hip Hip Hooray!!  Go China Go!!! 
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Greeks bearing EU debts squeezed on bailout payback  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/5/AwOV-wVO1AI 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwOV-wVO1AI  ---  (RTYuTb - 5min16sec - May 23, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Greece is facing fresh ultimatums from EU members amid criticism it's failing to meet its bailout obligations. Athens needs to step up its economic reforms to help reduce its huge national deficit. And as RT's Katerina Azarova reports, tensions between the country and its creditors are fast approaching boiling point." 
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Sunday May 22nd 2011 - links page

No posts. - mpg 

Saturday May 21st 2011 - links page

More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™.... 

Freedom is the Freedom to Say 2+2=4  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/freedom-is-the-freedom-to-say-224/ 
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."What happens to a country when it doesn’t hold it’s leaders responsible for criminal acts and outright lies told to their own people? The people get more outrageous lies and criminal behavior from their government. --  It is an unavoidable cycle. -- In a world devoid of accountability and the rule of law, the most ruthless will ultimately rule. This is the physics of fascism. It is as inescapable as the law of gravity and even more unforgiving." 
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How Many SEALs Died?  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28156.htm 
posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
A quote...."May 21, 2011 "Information Clearing House" --  In a sensational and explosive TV report, the Pakistani News Agency has provided a live interview with an eye witness to the US attack on the alleged compound of Osama bin Laden. The eye witness, Mohammad Bashir, describes the event as it unfolded. Of the three helicopters, "there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them up, but as he [the helicopter] was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire." The witness says that there were no survivors, just dead bodies and pieces of bodies everywhere. "We saw the helicopter burning, we saw the dead bodies, then everything was removed and now there is nothing." 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

This Is What A Police State Looks Like  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/21 
Must Read - A quote...."The late Chalmers Johnson often reminded us that “A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can’t be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.” His warning rings more true by the day, as Americans watch the erosion of their civil liberties accelerate in conjunction with the expansion of the US Empire." 
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OBAMA: 'Limited' US Role in Libyan War Means No Need For Congressional Authorization...  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/
OBAMA%3A_%27Limited%27_US_Role_in_Libyan_War_Means_No_Need_For_Congressional_Authorization.../13992/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
Related Article - A quote...."In an effort to satisfy those arguing he needs to seek congressional authorization to continue US military activity in accordance with the War Powers Resolution, President Obama wrote a letter to congressional leaders this afternoon suggesting that the role is now so “limited” he does not need to seek congressional approval." - And down goes the War Powers Act (which was probably too unconstitutionaly permissive anyway).....in flames. This is ridiculous. Are all you ObamaTrolls out there happy yet?  Are you still glad you voted for this turkey?- mpg 
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A Brief Primer on the Recent Supreme Court Decision in Kentucky v. King
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2131-a-brief-primer-on-the-recent-supreme-court-decision-in-kentucky-v-king.html
A quote...."Can cops now invade your home without a warrant anytime they feel like it?  ---  Sure they can." 

"Doesn't this completely and literally eviscerate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and specifically requires the use of a warrant?  ---  Sure it does." 

"So, was there really any point in having an American Revolution, if we have ended up with a tyranny far more implacable, intrusive, violent and extremist than anything in the wildest dreams of the most retrograde royalist serving King George III?  ---  Reckon not." 
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The Alex Jones Show – May 19th, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/20/the-alex-jones-show-may-19th-2011/ 
AJVideo - Intro  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VGWlOpPN3U 
HardCorePlcSt(1/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG4fiDl4_K0 
HardCorePlcSt(2/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9lXZZa_YVs 
HardCorePlcSt(3/3)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZwS55RuUZ8 
Corsi(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXmvhU_aeP4 
Corsi(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdUFQZ65w4w 
ObamaBthCert  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7tqSK-EbT0 
PaulCraigRoberts(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLgQvP0H_j8 
PaulCraigRoberts(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORe0ethlFjY 
DrStevePieczenik(1/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojGUY7a5Lls 
DrStevePieczenik(2/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ8OiVmHVV0 
DrStevePieczenik(3/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asD7DllczWA 
DrStevePieczenik(4/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zncdn4Tn7p0 
DrStevePieczenik(5/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dsW2dh8e54 
Note:  The interview with Dr Steve Piecznick was also posted yesterday. - mpg -- (AJYuTb - 10/15min - May 19, 2011) - TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex talks with Steve Pieczenik, author, publisher and former State Department official. Pieczenik is one of the world’s most experienced international crisis managers and hostage negotiators. He is the critically acclaimed author of psycho-political thrillers and the co-creator of the New York Times best-selling “Tom Clancy’s Op-Center” and “Tom Clancy’s Net Force” book series. Alex also talks with author, columnist, and former economist at the Treasury during the Reagan administration, Paul Craig Roberts, who will talk about the downfall of the IMF’s Strauss-Kahn and other issues. Alex also covers the latest news and takes your calls." 
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The vulture funds of death  ---  http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2c913216495213d5
df646910cba0a0a0/?vgnextoid=2dd3eb5e38300310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=teaser&ss=asia+world&s=business 
Alex Jones (in the videos above) talks a lot about the uber-parasites "plans of extermination".  But think about it folks, as described in this article, they've now set it up so the quicker you die and the greater the number of you that die, the MORE money they'll make from your early demise. A lot more money!  Not very reassuring is it?  Now the uber-parasites will be truly MOTIVATED to slaughter you sheeple!  Baaaaa, baaaaaa! - mpg -- A quote...."Investment banks see this as an opportunity to package that risk into bonds and other securities and create a new market for those willing to bet on life-expectancy rates. If pensioners die sooner than expected, investors profit. If they live longer, investors must compensate the pension fund for the additional costs it faces." - Topix ||  Double Indemnity - 12-21-09 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/doubleindemnity-mpg-reficultnias-122109 
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Tutorial: How To Get Around Government Censorship Of YouTube Videos
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/20/tutorial-government-censorship-youtube-videos-22842/ 
Web Freedom Tech Note - A quote...."Our so-called liberty loving democratic governments are resorting to tactics of a fascist totalitarian dictatorship and censoring YouTube videos which show nothing more then people protesting for their civil liberty. Here is the story behind the government censorship along with a tutorial on how to defeat it. Enjoy!" 
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More On The International Situation.... 

The Crisis In Pakistan.... 

Pakistan cuts off NATO supply route  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181096.html 
A quote...."Pakistan has blocked a vital supply route for trucks destined for US-led forces in Afghanistan hours after 16 people were killed in a blast in Khyber tribal region." 
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US arms sales at odds with words  ---  http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/116848 
A quote...."ON THE same day President Obama pressed again for peace in the Middle East, the Associated Press reminded us that the United States cannot help itself from flooding the region with the instruments of war, reporting that the nation is “quietly expanding defense ties on a vast scale’’ with Saudi Arabia."
Topix ||  One Vile, Venom Tipped, Taloned Hand Washes the Other - (a.k.a. The Standard Model) - 07-28-10 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/onevilevenomtippedtalonedhand-thestandardmodel-mpg-reficultnias-072810 
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Saudi Arabia sacks army chief  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181095.html 
A quote...."Saudi Arabia has appointed new officials to several key posts after dismissing their predecessors." 
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Britain plotted regime change in Iraq as early as 2001  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/chil-m21.shtml 
Keep in mind folks, elements within the US-NRE and Israel plotted regime change in Iraq (and many other countries) using an event like 9/11 as a pretext, (remember the phrase...."absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor" -- The PNAC Protocols)  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-planningguidance-weblist-mpg-040409  ---  much earlier than 2001, so did elements within Britain.  They are ALL guilty!!  - mpg -- A quote...."Previously classified documents released into the public domain reveal that Britain’s MI6 planned a coup against then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, just months after 9/11. This was despite official acknowledgement that there was no connection between the Hussein regime and Al Qaeda. The documents also confirm that the quest to secure stable oil supplies was central to plans for the invasion of Iraq." 
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Five French troops killed in Afghan war  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181001.html 
A quote...."A bomb attack has killed at least five French soldiers in Afghanistan as US-led foreign forces experience their deadliest days in the war-ravaged country." - also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/249011 
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Iran Clamps down on US Spy Network, Arrests 30 CIA Agents  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9002315392 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on Saturday that it has identified and disbanded a large US spy network with tens of branches, centers and nodes in different world countries, adding that it has arrested 30 spies during the operation." 
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Iran Starts Mass-Production of Powerful Anti-Armor Munitions  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9002310572 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Saturday started mass-production of anti-armor ammunition in an official ceremony attended by the country's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi." 
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IKCO Reigning Iran's Auto Industry  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9003010182 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran-Khodro Industrial Group took the top rank of car manufacturing in Iran after producing 774,965 units of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in 2010." 
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Russia Attaches Strings To $3 Billion Loan Offer To Belarus
  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Russia_Attaches_Strings_To_%243_Billion_Loan_Offer_To_Belarus/13991/0/38/38/Y/M.html 
A quote...."Russia has offered Belarus a desperately needed $3 billion loan, with significant conditions attached, amid talks between President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. -- Russia's finance minister, Aleksei Kudrin, says a major condition will be attached to a possible three-year, $3 billion loan for Belarus in the form of Minsk selling off certain national assets." 
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Russia, U.S. should have separate anti-missile systems, Poland says  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20110521/164156258.html 
A quote...."Russia and the United States should have separate, but cooperating missile defense systems, Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klikh said on Saturday." 
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Opposition activists rally in Georgia  ---  http://en.rian.ru/world/20110521/164155646.html 
A quote...."Tens of thousands of opposition supporters on Saturday rallied in Tbilisi demanding President Mikheil Saakashvili early resignation, while in the Black Sea port of Batumi protestors attempted to storm into a television building." 
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"Tear Out My Eyes": New Murder is Imperial Business as Usual
  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2128-qtear-out-my-eyesq-new-murder-is-imperial-business-as-usual.html 
Special Note - A quote...."Unfortunately, America's bipartisan imperium is still "getting on with business" in Latin America in much the same manner as in Pinochet's day. And yes, this includes the progressive Nobel Peace Laureate (and rootin' tootin' hit man) in the White House. - One of President Barack Obama's most signal achievements in inter-American relations has been his countenancing of a brutal coup in Honduras and his avid embrace of the repressive regime produced by the elitist overthrow of the democratically elected government. As we noted here last year...."  ---  http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1998-hungry-like-the-wolf-obamas-legacy-of-hope-and-change-in-honduras.html 

"Since the installation of these throwbacks to the corrupt and brutal 'banana republics' of yore, Obama's secretary of state, the "progressive" Hillary Clinton, has spent a good deal of time and effort trying to coerce Honduras' outraged neighbors in Latin America to "welcome" the thug-clique, now led by Porfirio Lobo, back into the "community of nations." Let bygones be bygones, Clinton says, as Lobo's regime murders journalists (nine so far this year), political opponents and carries on the wholesale trashing of Honduran independence (such as sacking four Supreme Court justices who opposed the gutting of liberties and the overthrow of constitutional order). After all, isn't that Obama's own philosophy: always "look forward," forget the crimes of the past? Every day is a new day, a clean slate, a chance for a new beginning -- indeed, for "hope and change." - In other words: let the dead bury the dead -- and the rich and powerful reap their rewards." - Topix ||  US Support Death Sqds -- Hideous Hillary's Happy Honduran Hit Squads    ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/usdeathsquads-weblist-mpg-111406#HHHHHS 
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The Assault On Libya.... 

Libyan Gov't: NATO is Cause of Deaths, Humanitarian Crisis  ---  http://www.cadenagramonte.cu/english/ 
index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5698:libyan-govt-nato-is-cause-of-deaths-humanitarian-crisis&catid=3:world&Itemid=14
A quote...."Tripoli, May 21.- Libya accused NATO on Saturday of causing deaths and a humanitarian crisis with its indiscriminate bombings, after attacks on three ports restricted the movement of ships carrying aid for civilians." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77945&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Patrick Cockburn: How Nato's blunders have prolonged Libya's suffering
  ---  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-how-natos-blunders-have-prolonged-libyas-suffering-2287405.html 
A quote...."One dispiriting outcome of the Libyan uprising is that the future of Libya is decreasingly likely to be determined by Libyans. Foreign intervention is turning into an old-style imperial venture. Much the same thing happened in Iraq in 2003 and in Afghanistan in the past few years. In Iraq, the US invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a ruler detested by most Iraqis, soon turned into what many Iraqis saw as a foreign occupation."
also posted at WarInIraq  ---  http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/249031 
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Libyan rebels accused of reprisal attacks  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77942&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."With Libya essentially divided in half by conflict, the U.S.- and NATO-backed rebels who control much of the east are carrying out what many view as a campaign of retaliation against those once aligned with Gaddafi, according to relatives and rebel commanders and officials. Such targeting raises questions about the character of the government taking shape in eastern Libya and whether it will follow basic principles of democracy and human rights." - The reason this article sounds so stupid, is because it's from WaPo.  ---  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/libyan-rebels-accused-of-reprisal-attacks/2011/05/20/AFaeAh8G_print.html  ---  mpg 
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More on the World Wide Revolution.... 

The Siege of Syria: Perception management & US-funded unrest used to justify regime change.  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/
The_Siege_of_Syria%3A_Perception_management_%26_US-funded_unrest_used_to_justify_regime_change._/13989/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
Must Read - A quote...."After admittedly organizing, training, funding, and equipping the very mobs littering Syria's streets, many of whom have resorted to arson  ---  and armed clashes with Syrian security forces,  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/04/video-reporting-possible-ciasaudi.html  ---  the United States is pressuring the Syrian government to step down. The US does not expect a sovereign nation to stand-down in the face of openly foreign-funded sedition, rather it is simply using the resulting violence to justify wider intervention and the eventual seizure and despoiling of yet another Arab nation." 
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Democracy Without Economic Independence is Worthless --- http://www.kabobfest.com/2011/02/democracy-without-economic-independence-is-worthless.html
A quote..."The Egyptian military, with a US green light, got rid of Mubarak for precisely the same reason they sent the police and thugs that killed over 300 and injured thousands last week — to allow for the economy to run smoothly again. In other words, the disposing of Mubarak is just another solution, as undesirable as it may be, to re-open banks and have business run as usual. Factories, banks, real state, and other businesses are still owned by the same corrupt leaders, with the fate of the Mubarak family stock still unknown." - also posted at AlethoNews  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/democracy-without-economic-independence-is-worthless/ 
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'Yemeni opposition signs (P)GCC deal'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181086.html 
A quote...."Yemen's opposition has reportedly signed an agreement with the government to bring an end to more than three months of political crisis in the most impoverished state in the Arab world." 
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Five killed in Syria unrest  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/181041.html 
A quote..."Clashes between Syrian security forces and so-called pro-reform protesters in the west of the country have reportedly claimed at least five lives, leaving many others injured." 
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Tens of thousands protest throughout Spain, defying government ban  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/spai-m21.shtml 
A quote...."Tens of thousands protestors continue to occupy Madrid’s Puerta del Sol and have gathered in the main squares of another 162 towns and cities across Spain in protest over unemployment, government austerity measures and a political system that serves only the banks and big business." 
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Jordanians want 'corrupt, oppressive' government sacked
  ---  http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=46234 
Eleven killed as Syrian funeral becomes protest
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77937&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants.... 

Nuclear Physicist: Most Of The Plutonium MOX Fuel Nuclear Fallout Likely To Drop On The U.S As US Plutonium Levels At 20 Year Highs
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/19/nuclear-physicist-plutonium-mox-fuel-nuclear-fallout-drop-22822/ 
 Radiation Alert - Charts - A quote...."As plutonium and uranium concentrations in the US hit their http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpghighest levels in 20 years a top nuclear physicists says most of the plutonium MOX nuclear fallout from Fukushima will drop on the United States." 
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Highest Radiation Levels Yet: 1,000 millisieverts/hour found on debris outside Reactor No. 3
  ---  http://enenews.com/highest-so-far-1000-millisievertshour-found-on-debris-outside-reactor-no-3 
A quote...."TEPCO announced on May 21 that the debris that emits 1000 millisieverts/hour radiation was found outside the reactor building of the Reactor 3 [...]" 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Spirit Of Rachel Corrie Blocked By Egypt: Leader of Gaza aid mission goes on hunger strike --- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24887
The Spirit of Rachel Corrie - Egypt's defiance of the US-NRE/AIPAC/Israeli Consortium lasted about one month.  That's about it. - mpg -- A quote...."EL-ARISH (Egypt): Matthias Chang, 61, leader of the Malaysian humanitarian aid mission to Gaza has gone on a hunger strike since yesterday evening onboard the cargo ship, MV Finch, in protest against the refusal of the authorities here to allow the ship to enter El-Arish Port." 
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Breaking the Blockade on Gaza: Lone Humanitarian Vessel Confronts the Egyptian Military Government
  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24892 
The Spirit of Rachel Corrie - Related Article - A quote...."The Spirit of Rachel Corrie (officially known as FINCH) carrying a humanitarian cargo to Gaza was attacked by an Israeli naval patrol within the so-called Palestinian Security Zone on May 15, at 10.54pm EDT. The vessel left the Greek Port of Piraeus, on Wednesday, May 11. The humanitarian initiative is sponsored by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF), chaired by the former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad. The ship is carrying 7.5 kilometers of UPVC (plastic) sewage pipes to help restore the devastated sewerage system in Gaza." 
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Proof THAT Israel's 'Stolen Beauty' Is Stolen  ---  http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/proof-that-israels-stolen-beauty-is-stolen/ 
A quote...."After years of strenuous denial, Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, an Israeli cosmetics firm with its main manufacturing plant in an illegal West Bank settlement, is proven by documentary evidence to be in violation of international law through its theft of Palestinian resources. This evidence was recently discovered by Who Profits, a research project of the Israeli Coalition for Peace, which documents corporate activity in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territory." 
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Two young men wounded; dozens suffer gas inhalation in Bil'in weekly demonstration  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/61283 
A quote...."On Friday, in the weekly march in Bil'in organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall with the participation of Sa'di Tameezi, the Palestinian ambassador to Vietnam, two young men were injured, and dozens of people suffered from the effects of tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers." 
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Gaza rebuilding plan includes bomb shelters  ---  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=389764  ---  One would HOPE so!!! - mpg
A quote...."BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A blueprint to rebuild the Gaza Strip includes measures to protect infrastructure from future attacks, a Palestinian official said Saturday of a plan for recovery after Israel's Operation Cast Lead." 
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Ranting Andy: The Myth of the Dollar, and Those That Refuse to Acknowledge It
  ---  http://babybulltwits.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/ranting-andy-the-myth-of-the-dollar-and-those-that-refuse-to-acknowledge-it/ 
A quote...."RANTING ANDY – As the bull market in Precious Metals (or rather the bear market in fiat currencies) intensifies, the level of lies and propaganda from Washington, Wall Street, and the puppet media will accelerate exponentially.  I stopped reading the Wall Street Journal in the late 90s when I realized it was nothing more than a cheerleading rag, and in more recent years broke off entirely with ANY AND ALL forms of mainstream communication.  Only the internet will set you free, as one must SEEK THE TRUTH because, if not, the LIES WILL SEEK YOU." - Everyone should keep in mind however, Bernie and his boys can print up one, two, or even three trillion dollars in the blink of an eye, hand it to their Bankster friends, who'll then leverage it up to a hundred to one, (that's 300 trillion) and they can go short, or go long, the entire market anytime they please to CRUSH you and any other investor that gets in their way. As they did on the COMEX, which is why it's great that silver and gold markets have recently opened up in Asia.  Hopefully, the Asian exchanges won't allow any "players" to use cheap, leveraged, toilet paper to trade their commodities. - mpg - Topix ||  Bankster Poker:  It's He Who Makes The Poker Chips That Wins - 11-15-10 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/banksterpoker-mpg-reficultnias-111510 
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The Economic Costs of Empire - A Few Headlines.... 

On The Chopping Block: Federal Worker Pensions
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/20/on-the-chopping-block-federal-worker-pensions/ 
Texas plans drastic cuts to education, health care, and social services
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/texa-m21.shtml 
Detroit City Council targets public transportation, arts and fire department
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/detr-m21.shtml 
White House budget attacks higher education for working class students
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/high-m21.shtml 
Britain’s National Health Service faces destruction
  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/pers-m20.shtml 
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Friday May 20th 2011 - links page

More on Osama Bin Back From the Dead™.... 

Osama Bin Laden Has Been Dead Since December 2001  ---  http://www.daily.pk/osama-bin-laden-has-been-dead-since-december-2001-11175/
From the History File - Thursday, September 24th, 2009 - A quote...."If they didn’t have an Osama Bin Laden, they would have invented one.” Milt Bearden – CIA agent, in an interview with anchor Dan Rather of the CBS (September 12, 2001) 

“The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11″. -- (Rex Tomb, spokesman, FBI’s Chief of Investigative Publicity) 

"Now that even Asif Ali Zardari the President of Pakistan & General Musharraf are stating that Bin Laden is dead, it is high time that we in India began to both debate as well as challenge this sheer calumny. -- Basically the truth and the fact of the matter is that Bin Laden has been dead since the latter half of December 2001. So then why did Bush-Cheney & now the Obama-Hillary combine, as well as the Neoconservatives & Zionist ideologues, continue to insist & actively propagate the myth of Bin Laden?" 
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Bin Laden Death Script & the Needed Trigger for Next Step-Pakistan  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28146.htm 
 posted at ICH  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/ichsfundingpage-cached-reficultnias-111908 
Special Note - Whoever the poor sucker was, (and it wasn't Osama bin dead for a decade), here's why the US-NRE/AIPAC/Israeli Consortium decided to kill him now. - mpg -- A quote....May 20, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- It has been over two weeks since the orchestrated ever-changing Bin Laden Death. The question of what happened remains the same except it doesn’t seem to matter any longer. The US media is done after making their initial splash, and the majority is left with one conclusion: the SOB is dead, and who gives a da… how it happened. Whether Osama held an AK-47 while using some damsel in distress as a shield, whether there was a real fight or not, whether it was really Osama’s body in an organic edible shell we fed to the endangered sharks, whether the full credit goes to the CIA or the White House or the Pentagon …no longer seems to matter. Dizzy-fying confusion induced by dozens and dozens of lies and discrepancies and denials has given way to post-adrenaline-rush exhaustion. The question of what happened has been classified as moot and irrelevant. Right or wrong I’ll leave that question behind, at least for now, and instead, go back to focus on the more important question- the question of ‘why and why now.’ 
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Confirmation: Bin Laden “Clone” Killed at Abbottabad
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/20/confirmation-bin-laden-look-alike-killled-at-abbottabad/ 
A quote...."From the cool comfort of the White House Obama watched the drama of raid on the house in Abbottabad. This was a CIA operation, meant to fool the world and embarrass Pakistan but the fact of the matter is that the whole exercise was a fake and a lie, same as the 9/11 episode was to find an excuse to launch the Crusade against the Muslim World. On the day of attack, that is 2nd May, I made the comment to the Pakistani media, that “It was a drama and a lie, to embarrass Pakistan." 
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'US [Alleged] Killing of Bin Laden Obscure'  ---  http://www.news24.pk/detail.php?nid=1933 
A quote...."Since long ago, Iran has been on the frontline of fighting al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and has paid huge costs along the way. However, according to the [Universal] Declaration of Human Rights and the international law, any suspect -- even Osama bin Laden -- has the right to be tried in a fair court,” he pointed out. --  By capturing bin Laden, it would have been better for the Americans to firstly try and then pass a verdict on the al-Qaeda leader, Larijani noted." 
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CIA chief’s letter confirms torture did not lead to Osama bin Laden
  ---  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/19/cia-chiefs-letter-confirms-torture-did-not-lead-to-osama-bin-laden/ 
Psssssssssst......That's because the man they killed was NOT Osama bin Laden. Not to mention the fact that every single intelligence, police, and army interrogator ever interviewed about this issue has stated torture is good for only ONE thing, obtaining false confessions for propaganda purposes - and - per this website editor, obtaining false information to cover-up, or obscure, a crime. - mpg -- A quote...."A private letter from CIA chief Leon Panetta to Senator John McCain (R-AZ) confirms that the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques put in place by the Bush administration did not reveal intelligence about Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the courier that eventually led the U.S. to Osama bin Laden." - Topix ||  9/11-Iraq-Torture Fables  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911&iraqtotturefables-weblist-mpg-052909 
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[Alleged] Bin Laden: Al-Qaeda leader was unarmed when shot - US
  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13274176 
[Alleged] Osama bin Laden's [Alleged] Guns Found 'Only After' US Navy Seals Killed Him
  ---  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28117.htm 
Navy Seals were ordered to kill [alleged] terrorist unless he was naked
  ---  http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/navy-seals-were-ordered-to-kill-terrorist-unless-he-was-naked-2638107.html 
Why Kill, Not Capture?
  ---  http://www.thedcpost.com/?p=7921 
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Factoids: 
  • Amal Ahmed al-Sadah - an alleged wife of bin Laden, was featured in a recent TIME article where it was stated she is now 24 years of age.  If the real Osama bin Laden had died in 2001, she would have been 14 years of age at the time.   
  • Orders to essentially execute the alleged Osama bin Laden, and not to capture him, were given by the Obama administration.   
  • The administration has acknowledged that the alleged bin Laden was unarmed at the time.   
  • The two "couriers" responsible for the alleged bin Laden's financial support and communications, were also executed.   
  • Only one of the "couriers" was alleged to have been armed at the time they were both killed.  Several articles fail to state if either of them were armed at the time they were both killed. - mpg   
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New Details On Al Qaeda Pentagon Lunch: Defense Dept. Was “Impressed” With Terrorist’s Presentation
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-details-on-al-qaeda-pentagon-lunch-defense-dept-was-impressed-with-terrorists-presentation.html 
In the Believe It Or Not Category - A quote...."As we previously reported, official government documents obtained by Fox News last year revealed that Al-Qaeda terror mastermind Anwar Al-Awlaki, the man who helped plot the aborted Christmas Day underwear bombing, the Fort Hood shooting, the Times Square bombing attempt, and who also preached to the alleged September 11 hijackers, dined at the Pentagon on February 5, 2002." 
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More On The Domestic Situation.... 

Obama’s Imperial Offensive  ---  http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/obama%E2%80%99s-imperial-offensive 
Must Read - Quote of the Day...."On Thursday, the worlds most cynical rhetorician will attempt to frame regime change and political assassination as defense of civilians and promotion of democracy. Only Americans will be fooled. President Obama has discarded all but the snakeskin of international law. “The Euro-American imperialists and Arab royal mafiosa hope their joint venture will quarantine or crush the Arab Reawakening outside its (barely and tentatively) ‘liberated’ territory in Egypt and Tunisia.” - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://uruknet.com/?p=m77857&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Obama's Middle East speech: “democratic” rhetoric cloaks predatory policy  ---  http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/mena-m20.shtml 
A quote...."In his “Arab spring” speech Thursday, Obama sought to cloak US imperialism’s predatory aims in the Middle East and North Africa in a mass of hypocritical and empty “democratic” rhetoric." 
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Obama's Middle East Hypocrisy  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/05/obamas-middle-east-hypocrisy.html 
For The Record - A quote...."Since taking office in January 2009, Obama broke every major campaign promise, including relevant ones to his May 19 Middle East speech; namely...." 
  • "hope;"   
  • "change;"   
  • peace;   
  • democratic values;    
  • closing Guantanamo in one year;   
  • ending torture, illegal spying, and detention without trial;   
  • "a new era of openness;"   
  • willingness to meet individually with Iranian, Syrian, Venezuelan, Cuban, and North Korean leaders;   
  • supporting Israeli and Palestinian efforts to "fulfill their national goals: two states living side by side in peace and security;" and   
  • on Afghanistan saying (October 27, 2007): "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I  will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this (and the Iraq) war(s). You can take that to the bank," and by implication not begin new ones."    
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Republicans in Congress to Crown Obama King  ---  http://warisacrime.org/content/republicans-congress-crown-obama-king 
Quote of the Day - (shown below)...."In what will come as a shock to the Tea Party and yet probably not rival the recent royal wedding in London for viewership, Republican Congressman Buck McKeon and Republican Senator John McCain plan to crown President Barack Obama King of America. They're not kidding, and this is no stunt." - also posted at GlobalRsrch  ---  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24882 

"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after you have given him so much as you propose. If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, "I see no probability of the British invading us" but he will say to you "be silent; I see it, if you don't." The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us." -- *Abraham Lincoln* 
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Renewing the Patriot Act: Who Will Protect Us From Our Government?  ---  http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead30.1.html 
Must Read - A quote...."Those who founded this country knew quite well that every citizen must remain vigilant or freedom would be lost. This is the true nature of a patriot – one who sounds the clarion call when the Constitution is under attack. If, on the other hand, the people become sheep-like, it will lead to a government of wolves. This is what we are faced with today as Congress marches in lockstep with the White House to renew the USA Patriot Act. -- The Patriot Act drove a stake through the heart of the Bill of Rights, violating at least six of the ten original amendments – the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments – and possibly the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well. The Patriot Act also redefined terrorism so broadly that many non-terrorist political activities such as protest marches, demonstrations and civil disobedience were considered potential terrorist acts, thereby rendering anyone desiring to engage in protected First Amendment expressive activities as suspects of the surveillance state." 
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Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/twenty-five-rules-of-disinformation.html 
Must Read - From the History File - Saturday, 09 April 2011 06:29 - (previously posted) - A quote...."Preface: This handy set of rules covers most of the games which disinformation artists play on the Internet (and offline). When you know the tricks, you'll be able to spot the games. Even if you've read this list before, you might be surprised at how useful it is to brush up on these tricks." -- Written by H. Michael Sweeney -- Built upon Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression by David Martin - posted at AscertainTheTruth  ---  http://www.ascertainthetruth.com/att/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&
id=488:twenty-five-ways-to-suppress-truth-the-rules-of-disinformation&catid=36:false-flag-operations&Itemid=106 
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Engineers Request Permission to Speak Freely Regarding World Trade Building 7
  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/permission-to-speak-freely-regarding.html 
Contains Videos - WTC7  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWorDrTC0Qg 
KamalObeid  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WCcSHpvAJ8 
MichaelDonley  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9b5Xax-vgU  ---  A quote...."Former commander-in-chief President Bush said:   

Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories. 

Indeed, the 9/11 Commission was warned not to probe too deeply. For example, ACLU, FireDogLake's Marcy Wheeler and RawStory reported (quoting RawStory): 

Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU. 

The current commander-in-chief, Barack Obama, has also warned against questioning 9/11: 
also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/engineers-request-permission-speak-freely-regarding-world-trade-building-7 
Topix ||  9/11-WTC7  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911-wtc7-weblist-mpg-082308  
||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html 
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9/11 WTC Employee Discusses pre 9/11 Power downs.  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s5w6uZof00 
From the History File - Sep 16, 2010 - (YuTb - 7min01sec - 09/16/10) - Source:  cappucinokid100  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/cappucinokid100  ---  A quote...."Gary Corbett , World Trade Centre employee discusses the power down at the WTC the weekend before 9/11."
Topix ||  9/11-WTC-1&2  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/911WTC1&2-weblist-mpg-030709
||  Reficultnias's 9/11 Central  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/reficultniass911central-mpg-reficultnias-weblist-100409.html 
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Anthrax "Conviction" Falls Apart  ---  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/anthrax-conviction-falls-apart.html 
Cover-Up Exposed - A quote...."[As] McClatchy noted yesterday  ---  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/19/114467/fbi-lab-reports-on-anthrax-attacks.html  ---  Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data suggesting that a chemical may have been added to try to heighten the powder's potency, a move that some experts say exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer. [Bruce Ivins] - also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/anthrax-conviction-falls-apart  ---  Topix ||  US-False Flag Ops - Bruce Ivins  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/weblists/falseflagops-weblist-mpg-082006#BRUCE_IVINS 
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Suppressed News: “False Flag” Whistleblower Acquitted in Britain - Britain’s Largest Terror Attack Likely “Mossad/MI-5″ Operation
  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/18/suppressed-news-false-flag-whistleblower-acquitted-in-britain/ 
A quote...."- Anthony John Hill, “Maud dib” found not guilty for exposing 7/7 “Inside Job” -- The story has been censored from the American media.  Few Americans know of or remember the “British 9/11.” Fewer still are aware that a powerful legal case has been made showing full government complicity in the planning and execution of the attack and the extent the British government has gone to in order to suppress information about one of the worst kept secrets in history.  The film “Ripple Effect,” considered a threat to British “security” led to one of the most incomprehensible criminal cases in recent years." 
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Congress Sells Out American People Again, Reaches Deal To Extend Patriot Act Four More Years
  ---  http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/20/congress-sells-out-american-people-again-extends-patriot-act-for-four-more-years/ 
Police State Alert - A quote...."Congress, unfazed by their worst approval rating in history, has just reached a deal to extend the Patriot Act four more years." - That's right, and as long as people keep voting for DemoRepubs, things will keep getting worse.  It's that simple. - mpg 
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University “Campus Watch” Citizen Spy Prog Partners With Threat Fusion Center To Report Suspicious Activity  ---  http://dprogram.net/
2011/05/19/university-%E2%80%9Ccampus-watch%E2%80%9D-citizen-spy-program-partners-with-threat-fusion-center-to-report-suspicious-activity/
Police State Alert - (a.k.a. "The New Amerikan Stasi") - A quote...."Based upon Osama bin Laden being killed by U.S. military forces, The University of Arizona Police Department, in a joint effort with The Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center, is asking all Citizens to increase vigilance and maintain a heightened awareness of suspicious activities." - Topix ||  Amerika, You Been Busted!! - 05-14-11 - mpg  ||
  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/amerikayoubeenbusted-mpg-reficultnias-051411 
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Dr. Steve Pieczenik: State Of Emergency  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/20/dr-steve-pieczenik-state-of-emergency/ 
Videos - SP&AJ(1/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojGUY7a5Lls 
SP&AJ(2/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ8OiVmHVV0 
SP&AJ(3/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asD7DllczWA 
SP&AJ(4/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zncdn4Tn7p0 
SP&AJ(1/5)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dsW2dh8e54  ---  (YuTb - 10/15min - May 19, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Alex talks with Steve Pieczenik, author, publisher and former State Department official. Pieczenik is one of the world’s most experienced international crisis managers and hostage negotiators. He is the critically acclaimed author of psycho-political thrillers and the co-creator of the New York Times best-selling “Tom Clancy’s Op-Center” and “Tom Clancy’s Net Force” book series." 
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What Really Happened with Michael Rivero – May 19th, 2011  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/19/what-really-happened-with-michael-rivero-may-19th-2011/ 
Part 2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286231673 
MRVideo - Part1  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286231713  ---  Part2  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/b/286231673  ---  (JustInTV - 2hrs - May 19th, 2011) - Source:  MichaelRiveroTV-Vids  ---  http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero/videos  ---  Michael Rivero extensively covers the "Osama bin Photo-Shopped" extravaganza, the on-going lies from the White House about the whole issue, along with many other topics. - mpg 
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Keiser Report: Suicide Banking (E148)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/15/o3mW1eGBeoE 
Must View - RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3mW1eGBeoE  ---  (RTYuTb - 26min 45sec - May 19, 2011) - Source:  RTAmerica  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica  --- A quote...."This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on staging bomb blasts to unravel financial markets while Zimbabwe proposes a gold backed currency. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Gregor Macdonald of Gregor.us about paper versus real as future growth prospects dim on declining energy resources." 
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More On The International Situation.... 

The Crisis In Pakistan.... 

Which Path to Persia?: Redux  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Which_Path_to_Persia%3F%3A_Redux_/13962/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
Must Read - A quote...."While the "easier" nations of Tunisia and Egypt were picked apart by foreign-funded color revolutions,  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/04/official-arab-spring-subversion-us.html  ---  the global corporate-financier oligarchs knew well in advance nations like Libya, Syria, and Iran would be fundamentally different. Nations including Belarus,  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/04/besieging-belarus.html  ---  Pakistan,  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/05/globalists-pakistan-war-plan.html  ---  Myanmar, and Thailand,  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/05/globalists-fueling-unrest-in-thailand.html  ---  come next, posing similar hurdles, and of course Russia and China remain at the end of the road  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/middle-east-then-world.html  ---  and will require the most vigorous of all campaigns to effect regime change and assimilate them into the Wall Street/London corporate-financier dominated  ---  http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/03/naming-names-your-real-government.html  ---  "international community." 
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Step Aside US: Pakistan's New "Best Friend" China, To Provide Karachi With 50 New JF-17 Fighter Jets On Expedited Basis
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/step-aside-us-pakistans-new-best-friend-china-provide-karachi-50-new-jf-17-fighter-jets-expe 
A quote...."There was a time when a young Mujahideen commander named Osama bin Laden was a core ally of the US in the fight against Soviet communism and central planning. Well, that particular affair did not end too well for either Osama, nor for the USSR (although one may argue that "communism and central planning" are experiencing a second renaissance courtesy of capitalist central banking). Along the same lines, Pakistan which as recently as 3 weeks ago was considered a core US ally, has very promptly fallen out of favor following the death of that other abovementioned former ally. Yet Pakistan is not wasting time. Two days after Pakistani PM Yousuf Raza Gilani took a direct stab at deteriorating US-Paki relations by saying that China is now his country's "best friend",  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13418957  ---  China has retorted in kind by announcing it will provide another 50 JF-17 fighter jets  ---  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC_/_PAC_JF-17_Thunder  ---  to Pakistan on an "expedited" basis." 
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VIEW: The secret US war in Pakistan —Musa Khan Jalalzai
  ---  http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C05%5C19%5Cstory_19-5-2011_pg3_4 
A quote...."There are many stories available in leading Pakistani newspapers about the US’s secret operations, run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), in major cities, specifically in Karachi, Peshawar and Lahore. The notorious private contractor, Blackwater, has been at the centre of the killing fields and targeted assassinations in both Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2001...." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77876&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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No more unilateral US action in Pakistan, says Gilani
  ---  http://www.hindustantimes.com/No-more-unilateral-US-action-in-Pakistan-says-Gilani/Article1-699505.aspx 
A quote...."Amid the diplomatic row between the US and Pakistan over the secret raid against Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday that Washington has assured Islamabad of not resorting to unilateral action inside its territory. Henceforth, the two countries will conduct joint operations against militants." 
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US consulate cars attacked in Pakistan  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180794.html 
A quote...."One person has been killed and at least 11 others, including two Americans, injured as a roadside bomb targeting US consulate vehicles went off in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar." 
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German Soldiers Fired Deliberately at Protesters  ---  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,763937,00.html 
A quote...."The incident occurred Wednesday morning in front of a German military camp in the northern Afghan city of Taloqan, in Takhar province, as a funeral march was being held for four people, including two women, who had been killed by US troops in a nighttime operation against suspected terrorists. The Bundeswehr had previously claimed that German soldiers had only fired warning shots to protect their camp from further attacks by enraged demonstrators taking part in the funeral procession." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77919&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Afghans killed in protest over NATO night raids  ---  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/afgh-m19.shtml 
A quote...."At least a dozen Afghan civilians were shot to death and another 85 wounded in mass protests Wednesday over a NATO night raid that killed four members of a family in the country’s northern Takhar province." - also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77875&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Strauss-Kahn & The IMF/BCCI Mugger  ---  http://www.blacklistednews.com/Strauss-Kahn_%26_The_IMFBCCI_Mugger/13966/0/0/0/Y/M.html 
A quote...."This week’s arrest of IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn – whether a Sarkozy-instigated “honey-trap” or just good law enforcement – should come as no surprise.  Since its inception, the IMF has violently abused the people of the developing world in its role as debt collector for the Eight Families Rothschild-led banking monopoly." 
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Bucking the Palace: Scottish national wave hits British Isles  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/14/s5WhQaa0B3E 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5WhQaa0B3E  ---  (RTYuTb - 2min58sec - May 19, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."Scotland has become the latest country in Europe caught up in the wave of nationalism sweeping across the continent. The Scottish National Party's surprise success in recent elections means for the first time they have a majority in parliament. And they've wasted little time in promising a vote on independence from Britain will follow. But, as RT's Laura Emmett reports, it could be a struggle." 
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U.S. missile defense in Europe 'real threat' to Russia - General Staff  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110520/164133194.html 
A quote...."MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. plans for a missile defense system in Europe will pose a genuine threat to Russia's nuclear deterrence capability if they are carried out in full, a General Staff official said on Friday." 
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Russia launches U.S. telecoms satellite  ---  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110521/164145680.html
A quote...."Russia has launched a Proton-M heavy carrier rocket with a U.S. telstar-14R telecommunications satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said."  
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Iran Takes Final Step in Launching Petroleum Bourse  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9002300540 
Special Note - War Alert - A quote..."TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran sold its first gasoline consignment through the Kish Island oil bourse in a final step in launching the country's petroleum bourse." - Pssssssst, this is a "war alert" because Iran is NOT selling their oil products using USDs.  A definite no-no as far as the US-NRE's Banksters are concerned.  If you're still confused, go ask Saddam Hussein, (you'll have to use a Ouija board to do so) or go ask Muammar Gaddafi, he's still alive....for now. - mpg 
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Iran Blasts Obama's Blatant Support for Israeli Racist Regime  ---  http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=9002300636 
A quote...."TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili strongly criticized Washington for its support for repressive regimes in the region, Israel in particular." 
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'US strategy centers on stealing Mideast oil, gas'  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/180739.html 
PRSTVVideo - (PRSVid - 7min46sec - Thu May 19, 2011 4:17PM) - A quote...."An international law professor says the main strategic objective of the U.S. has always been to "steal as much oil and gas as they possibly can." -- "9/11 was the pretext for them to go out and steal as much gas as you want. If you look at where they are using military force, it's where there is oil and gas," Francis A. Boyle told Press TV's U.S. Desk on Thursday." 
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Turkish FM censures US Palestine policy  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180920.html 
A quote...."Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says the United States should take a "more principled attitude" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." - HAH!!  If wishes were fishes. - mpg 
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Middle East Meddling: What chance America 'gets out of the way'?  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/10/DDaqJwdIrWI 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDaqJwdIrWI  ---  (RTYuTb - 2min58sec - May 19, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."President Obama has issued an ultimatum to Syria's President Assad - to either lead democratic transition in the country or get out of the way. His warning came during a keynote speech, which has just finished, on America's Middle East position, where he also announced financial help for Egypt and Tunisia. RT's Gayane Chichakyan listened in from Washington." 
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Map of Arab Rage: Imperialism in the making?  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/12/80GJ30yvLzI 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80GJ30yvLzI&feature=channel_video_title  ---  (RTYuTb - 4min14sec - May 19, 2011) - Source:  RussiaToday  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday  ---  A quote...."When President Obama gives his major Middle East speech on Thursday, he's expected to announce American cash support for the revolutionary Arab states. The buzzwords are likely to be about supporting democracy. But, as Gayane Chichakyan reports, not everyone's fight for freedom fits Washington's plan." 
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The Assault On Libya.... 

Arab League Silences Libyan TV  ---  http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2011/05/arab-league-silences-libyan-tv.html 
Oh looky!!  More ol'dat dare Amerikan styled free-dumb & da'mockery in action!! - mpg -- A quote...."(May 19, Asmara- Eritrea, Sri Lanka Guardian)The new supremo of the Arab League kept his promise, the first he was to make, and has chopped off the head of Libyan television, so to speak, by blocking any further Libyan government satellite television broadcast by the middle east and Africa’s most watched network, Arabsat. -- By the time I arrived home for lunch on Tuesday, May 17 and my thrice daily dose of Al Jammahariya tv all five Libyan government satellite channels had gone dark." - also posted at AlethoNews
  ---  http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/arab-league-silences-libyan-tv/ 
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War Crimes & the Bombing of Libya  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77869&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."According to the New York Times (5/16/11), Gen. Sir David Richards, "Britain’s top military commander," is proposing that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) target Libyan "infrastructure," including electrical power grids and fuel dumps, in government held areas." 
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Pirates of the Mediterranean By William Bowles  ---  http://williambowles.info/2011/05/20/pirates-of-the-mediterranean-by-william-bowles/ 
A quote...."The outrageous call by Gen. Sir Richard Davis the other day to bomb everything in Libya illustrates what lurks beneath the veneer of civilization. And believe me, Gen. Sir Davis comes from a long line of pirates stretching all the way back to the 16th century and the reign of Elizabeth I when the pirates were described as ‘privateers‘ or to call them by their contemporary name, private military contractors.[1]" 
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77908&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Obama Takes Yet Another Page from the Clinton Globalist Playbook
  ---  http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/obama-takes-yet-another-page-from-the-clinton-globalist-playbook/ 
A quote...."Today is the 60th day of our involvement in Libya helping the al Qaeda linked CIA backed “rebels” over-throw Moammar Gadhafi. After various pieces of rather obvious propaganda have been tried and failed to generate a great deal of public support for our newest Shock and Awe bombing campaign, congress is left with a bit of a puzzle: how do they vote to support Obama’s MIC fundraiser at a time when the country is supposedly going broke and we can’t even pay teachers to teach our kids?" 
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Russia calls for international peace-making in Libya  ---  http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLDE74J0EO20110520 
A quote...."MOSCOW May 20 (Reuters) - Russia called on Friday for U.N. and African Union peace-making to stem violence in war-torn Libya, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said." 
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Lawmakers largely silent on war powers authority in Libya
  ---   http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/162323-lawmakers-quiet-on-war-powers-authority-in-libya- 
Alt  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/20-3 
WH on War Powers Deadline: 'Limited' US Role in Libya Means No Need to Get Congressional Authorization
  ---  http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/white-house-on-war-powers-deadline.html 
Is Obama about to break the law?
  ---  http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/05/is-obama-about-to-break-law.html 
NATO targets Libyan vessels at 3 ports
  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77912&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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More on the World Wide Revolution.... 

Youths Defiant at 'Spanish Revolution' Camp in Madrid  ---  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/20 
A quote...."Thousands of Spaniards in central Madrid have vowed to defy a ban on their protest camp and continue their open-air sit-in." - Source:  BBCNews
  ---  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13466977 
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Jordanians want government sacked  ---  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/180889.html 
A quote...."Thousands of Jordanians have poured into the streets across the country to protest against what they called the government's failure to fight corruption  .
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More on Japan's Nuclear Power Plants....

Confirmed: EPA Rigged RADNET Japan Nuc Rad Monitoring Equipment To Report Lower Levels Of ~ Fallout http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpg ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/
2011/05/19/confirmed-epa-rigged-radnet-japan-nuclear-radiation-monitoring-equipment-report-levels-nuclear-fallout-22823/ 
Radiation Cover-Up Alert -- A quote...."The EPA re-calibrated (rigged) Japan nuclear radiation monitoring equipment causing them to report lower levels of radioactive fallout after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown than what was detected before the disaster." 
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Christopher Busby: The Negative Health Effects of Low-Dose Radiation from Fukushima
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/20/christopher-busby-the-negative-health-effects-of-low-dose-radiation-from-fukushima/ 
http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/cachedfiles/photofiles/radiation-image.jpgRadiation Alert - AJVideo  ---  CB&AJ(1/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCmP83mgUnk  ---  CB&AJ(2/2)  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZszDrDfL5A  ---  (AJYuTb - 15/8ming - May 18, 2011) - Source:  TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel  ---  A quote...."Christopher Busby, a British scientist researching the negative health effects of low-dose ionizing radiation, makes an appearance to talk about the critical situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan." 
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Fukushima Worker Internal Radiation Level Hits 30,000 CPM As Radiation Poisoning Cover Up Continues
  ---  http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/19/fukushima-worker-internal-radiation-level-hits-30000-cpm-radiation-poisoning-cover-continues-22818/ 
A quote...."An investigative report from the Daily Yomuri reveals that TEPCO is going to great lengths to cover up the amount of nuclear radiation that workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant are being exposed to." 
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Japan’s Fukushima Reactor May Have Leaked Radiation Before Tsunami Struck
  ---  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-19/fukushima-may-have-leaked-radiation-before-quake.html 
A quote...."A radiation alarm went off at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima nuclear power plant before the tsunami hit on March 11, suggesting that contrary to earlier assumptions the reactors were damaged by the earthquake that spawned the wall of water. " - Topix ||  Was Stuxnet Designed to Cause A Melt-Down On Que - 03-23-11 - mpg  ||  ---  http://www.reficultnias.org/mikesfiles/blotterminiblogs/wasstuxnetdesignedtocauseameltdownonque-mpg-reficultnias-032311 
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Radiation News 05-20-11 - A DProgram Round-Up - (9 articles & videos) 
  ---  http://dprogram.net/2011/05/20/radiation-news-5-20-11/ 
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More On The Palestinian Situation.... 

Doing Netanyahu's Work for Him -- How Obama Demolished Palestinian Chances for Statehood  ---  http://www.counterpunch.org/levy05202011.html 
A quote...."Benjamin Netanyahu may as well have canceled his trip to Washington: Barack Obama did the work for him, or most of it. But the prime minister is already on his way, so he should at least send to the White House a big bouquet of flowers." 
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Abu Zuhri: “Obama’s Speech Shows Political Failure”  ---  http://www.imemc.org/article/61278 
A quote...."Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, media spokesperson of the Hamas movement, stated that the speech of U.S. President Barack Obama, only shows failed U.S. policies that indicate political failure, and added that the Arab nation does not need Obama’s lessons in democracy while he even refuses to denounce the ongoing Israeli occupation, and expressed ongoing support to Israeli crimes." 
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The young will never forget, and will one day return  ---  http://electronicintifada.net/content/young-will-never-forget-and-will-one-day-return/9989 
A quote...."The old will die and the young will forget” — this was the prediction of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion. Sixty-three years later, I still wonder what made him think so. Would the Jewish masses — or indeed any of the other millions of people who suffered the Holocaust — ever forget?"
also posted at Uruknet  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77870&hd=&size=1&l=e 
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Stealing Palestinian Land Dunam by Dunam  ---  http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m77867&hd=&size=1&l=e 
A quote...."One dunam is 1,000 square meters, four dunams to an acre. Israel is stealing them incrementally to control all valued Palestinian land, dispossessing indigenous people illegally in the process." - also posted at VeteransToday  ---  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/19/stealing-palestinian-land-dunam-by-dunam/  ---  Source:  StephenLendman  ---  http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/05/stealing-palestinian-land-dunam-by.html 
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (12– 18 May 2011)
  ---  http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7459:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-12-18-may-2011&catid=131:new 
Every single week of the year, with no time off for good behavior, or any holidays... 
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  • Two Palestinian children were killed in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.   
    • The child who was killed in the Gaza Strip was mentally disabled and was killed by a shell fired by IOF.   
    • A child in the West Bank sustained serious wounds by the explosion of a suspicious object left by IOF.   
  • IOF used excessive force against peaceful demonstrations commemorating the Palestinian Nakba.[1]   
    • 144 civilians were wounded in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.   
    • The wounded include 47 children, 5 women and 4 journalists.   
  • IOF continued to target Palestinian fishermen at Gaza sea.   
    • IOF fired at Palestinian fishing boats, but no casualties were reported.   
  • IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests against the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities in the West Bank.   
    • Three demonstrators, including a child and an international human rights defender, were wounded.   
    • IOF arrested 10 demonstrators, including 2 Israeli solidarity activists.   
  • IOF conducted 20 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.   
    • IOF arrested 15 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children.   
  • IOF continued settlement activities and Israeli settlers continued their attacks in the West Bank.   
    • Israeli settlers continued their attacks against Palestinian civilians and property.   
    • IOF raided the Orphanage School in al-Thawri neighborhood of the occupied East Jerusalem and terrorized the students in the school.   
  • Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the Gaza Strip and tightened the siege on the West Bank.   
    • IOF arrested at least 4 Palestinians at military checkpoints in the West Bank.   
    • IOF imposed a total closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on the anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.   
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More On The Economic Situation.... 

Priced in Gold, Is Housing a Buy?  ---  http://www.oftwominds.com/blogmay11/gold-housing5-11.html 
Must Read - A quote...."My basic point of view is that nominal prices and broad terms such as deflation, inflation and growth should be viewed with extreme skepticism. The more useful approach is to examine the purchasing power of various assets and the the purchasing power of the income streams generated by those assets." - also posted at ZeroHedge  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-priced-gold-housing-buy 
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Fed Treasury Holdings Pass $1.5 Trillion  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fed-treasury-holdings-pass-15-trillion 
Charts - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."It seems like it was only yesterday that the Fed passed the $1 trillion mark in total Treasury holdings (actually it was on that memorable Winter Solstice of 2010 but who's counting). Well it is not even 5 full months later, and the Fed has already added $500 billion in holdings." 
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US Debt And The Presidents Responsible  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-debt-and-presidents-responsible 
Chart - (click to enlarge) - A quote...."Presented without commentary." 
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Peter Schiff: "We're selling our souls to the devil"  ---  http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15019 
RTVideo - Alt  ---  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JBbdCSgy9A  ---  (RTYuTb - 8min 42sec - May 18, 2011) - Source:  RTAmerica  ---  http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica  ---  A quote...."Volatility is just part of the market, says Euro Pacific Capital President Peter Schiff. While speculation could smooth this out, however, that isn't the case right now. Irresponsibly money printing is damaging the dollar, and as currency is continued to be produced in America and elsewhere, commodity prices have nowhere to go but up. While the World Bank says the global economy is climbing itself out of a financial crisis, Schiff says he isn't so certain." 
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Treasury Prepares To Plunder Another $45 Billion From Retirement Funds As It Issues $110 Billion More Debt Next Week
  ---  http://www.prisonplanet.com/treasury-prepares-to-plunder-another-45-billion-from-retirement-funds-as-it-issues-110-billion-more-debt-next-week.html 
A quote...."Now that it has finally been made clear that in order to accommodate the debt ceiling by adding marketable debt, the Treasury has no choice but to literally plunder retirement accounts, we now know that in order to fit in the just announced $110 billion in new bond issuance over the next week, Tim Geithner will have to reduce US retirement funding (the bulk of which, the Social Security Trust Fund already lost $1.1 trillion in the past year) by at least $45 billion." 
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Sorry, You Can't Blame The Philly Fed's Collapse On Japan; And Goldman's Take Of Today's Trifecta Of Bad News
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/sorry-you-cant-blame-philly-feds-collapse-japan-and-goldmans-take-todays-trifecta-bad-news 
A quote...."Already some of those who said that the Japanese disaster would lead to a surge in global GDP (since disproven) are trying to validate that 3rd worst 2 months drop in the Philly Fed in history (43.4 in march, 3.9 in May) can be attributed to, you guessed it, Japan. Sorry. You can't....." 
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Initial Claims Print At 409K, Down From Upward Revised 438K, Below Expectations Of 420K
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/initial-claims-print-409k-down-upward-revised-438k-below-expectations-420k 
A quote...."Another week, another 400+ jobless print, another prior upward revision: the DOL does it like clockwork. In the week ended May 14, initial jobless claims were filed by 409,000 people (to be revised to at least 412,000 next week), which while is a drop from last week's upward revised 438,000 (originally 434,000), better than consensus, yet with the number being well above 400,000, it means that the economy continues to be a net loser of jobs." 
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What To Expect As QE 2 Ends, And Why By The Time QE X Is Over "Bernanke Will Be The Biggest Landlord In The Country"
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/what-expect-qe-2-ends-and-why-time-qe-x-over-bernanke-will-be-biggest-landlord-country 
A quote...."We have long claimed that 2011 is playing out in a manner virtually identical to 2010, almost to the tic. And as we approach the end of QE2 in 6 weeks, a quick glance at what happened with stocks following the end of QE1 in March of 2010, will be illustrative of what to expect this time around...."
  • S&P 500 sagged from 1,217 to 1,064   
  • S&P 600 small caps dell 394 to 330   
  • The best performing equity sectors were telecom services, utilities, consumer staples and healthcar, in other words - the defensives The worst performers were financial, tech, energy, and consumer discretionary [sound familiar?]   
  • Baa corporate spreads widened +59 bps from 237 bps to 296 bps   
  • CRB futures index dropped from 279 to 267   
  • Oil went from $84.30 a barrel to $75.20   
  • The trade-weighted US dollar index (against major currencies) firmed to 76.5 from 75.5   
  • The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note plunged to 2.66% from 3.84%   
"and yet...." 
  • Gold was the commodity that bucked the trend as it acted as a refuge at a time of intensifying and financial uncertainty - to $1,235 an ounce from $1,140 and even with a more stable-to-strong U.S. dollar too.   
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Selected ZeroHedge Headlines....
S&P Lowers Italy Outlook To Negative
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/sp-lowers-italy-outlook-negative 
USD Short Covering, EUR Capitulation Ending, Silver Spec Longs At Two Year Lows - Charts
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/usd-short-covering-eur-capitulation-ending-silver-spec-longs-two-year-lows 
Zimbabwe To Trade Diamonds For Gold As It Prepares To Launch Gold-Backed Currency
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/zimbabwe-trade-diamonds-gold-it-prepares-launch-gold-backed-currency 
And A Little Fuel To The Fire: Greece Downgraded By Fitch
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/and-little-fuel-fire-greece-downgraded-fitch 
Norway Stops Aid Payments To Greece
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/norway-stops-aid-payments-greece 
Japanese Economy Collapses: Q1 GDP Drops At Double Consensus Rate, Epic Nominal Plunge Of -5.2%
  ---  http://www.zerohedge.com/article/japanese-economy-collapses-q1-gdp-drops-double-consensus-rate-epic-nominal-plunge-52?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rat 
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